Tangential Trapezoid Central Configurations

    2020, Volume 25, Number 6, pp.  651-661

    Author(s): Yuan P., Llibre J.

    A tangential trapezoid, also called a circumscribed trapezoid, is a trapezoid whose four sides are all tangent to a circle within the trapezoid: the in-circle or inscribed circle. In this paper we classify all planar four-body central configurations, where the four bodies are at the vertices of a tangential trapezoid.
    Keywords: convex central configuration, four-body problem, tangential trapezoid
    Citation: Yuan P., Llibre J., Tangential Trapezoid Central Configurations, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 2020, Volume 25, Number 6, pp. 651-661



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