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| Oct 12, 2015 at 10:41 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Suvrit: Interesting! Thanks for the reference. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 1:53 | comment | added | Suvrit | I just saw this claim for a proof for the case $n=3$ with equal $a_j$: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167278915001347 | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | I do not understand what is the relation between the problems. Can you explain? In Maxwell problem $x_j$ are FIXED. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 4:55 | comment | added | Richard Montgomery | This is quite similar to the problem regarding finiteness of the number of central configurations for the n-body problem which made it into Smale's problem list, known for centuries for n=3, proven for n=4 [Moeckel and Hampton] and with substantial results for n=5 [Albouy and Kaloshin]. To get to Maxwell's from the n-body one, formally take n bodies and place them at the $x_j$, with masses $a_j$, and then add a n+1st body, at variable x, with mass $\epsilon$ and let $\epsilon \to 0$. Hmmm... | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:17 | history | edited | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Dec 16, 2014 at 23:02 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Dec 16, 2014 at 23:02 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Alexandre Eremenko |