Central configurations in three dimensions

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2032, 2003, Pages 911-943

  Battye, Richard A ^a   Gibbons, Gary W ^b   Sutcliffe, Paul M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central configurations; Point particles; Sphere packing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0043067463     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2002.1061     Document Type: Article

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