On the Uniqueness of Co-circular Four Body Central Configurations

Abstract

We study central configurations lying on a common circle in the Newtonian four-body problem. Using a topological argument we prove that there is at most one co-circular central configuration for each cyclic ordering of the masses on the circle.

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