2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Saari’s Conjecture
Author : Florin Diacu
Published in: Relative Equilibria of the Curved N-Body Problem
Publisher: Atlantis Press
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In 1970, Don Saari conjectured that solutions of the classical
N
-body problem with constant moment of inertia are relative equilibria. This statement is surprising since one does not expect that such a weak constraint would force the bodies to maintain constant mutual distances all along the motion.