A computer-assisted proof of Saari's conjecture for the planar three-body problem

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 357, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3105-3117

  Moeckel, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Computational algebra; Three body problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244462034     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03527-5     Document Type: Article

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