Finiteness of relative equilibria of the four-body problem

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-312

  Hampton, Marshall ^a   Moeckel, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 30444449323     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-005-0461-0     Document Type: Article

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