The N-body problem, the braid group, and action-minimizing periodic solutions

Nonlinearity

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 363-376

  Montgomery, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0041179241     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/11/2/011     Document Type: Article

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