Periodic solutions of the planar N-center problem with topological constraints

Guowei  Yu

doi:10.3934/dcds.2016023

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2016, Volume 36, Issue 9: 5131-5162. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016023

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Periodic solutions of the planar N-center problem with topological constraints

Guowei Yu^1,

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Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St. George St., Room 6290, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2E4

Received: June 30, 2015

Revised: October 31, 2015

Published: May 2017

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In the planar $N$-center problem, given a non-trivial free homotopy class of the configuration space satisfying certain conditions, we show that there is at least one collision-free $T$-periodic solution for any positive $T.$ The direct method of calculus of variations is used and the main difficulty is to show that minimizers under certain topological constraints are free of collision.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 70F10, 37N05.

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