TY - BOOK AU - Diacu,Florin TI - Relative Equilibria in the 3-Dimensional Curved n-Body Problem T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society SN - 9781470414832 AV - QB362.M3 -- .D534 2013eb U1 - 531.16 PY - 2014/// CY - Providence PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Many-body problem KW - Spaces of constant curvature KW - Celestial mechanics KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. The problem -- 2. Importance -- 3. History -- 4. Results -- Chapter 2. BACKGROUND AND EQUATIONS OF MOTION -- 5. Preliminary developments -- 6. Equations of motion -- 7. First integrals -- 8. Singularities -- Chapter 3. ISOMETRIES AND RELATIVE EQUILIBRIA -- 9. Isometric rotations in _{ }³ and ℍ_{ }³ -- 10. Some geometric properties of the isometric rotations -- 11. Relative equilibria -- 12. Fixed Points -- Chapter 4. CRITERIA AND QUALITATIVE BEHAVIOUR -- 13. Existence criteria for the relative equilibria -- 14. Qualitative behaviour of the relative equilibria in _{ }³ -- 15. Qualitative behaviour of the relative equilibria in ℍ_{ }³ -- Chapter 5. EXAMPLES -- 16. Examples of -positive elliptic relative equilibria -- 17. Examples of -positive elliptic-elliptic relative equilibria -- 18. Examples of -negative elliptic relative equilibria -- 19. Examples of -negative hyperbolic relative equilibria -- 20. Examples of -negative elliptic-hyperbolic relative equilibria -- Chapter 6. CONCLUSIONS -- 21. Stability -- 22. Future perspectives -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3114114 ER -