Saari's original conjecture for the Newtonian NN-body problem

Consider the Newtonian NN-body problem, with potential corresponding to α=1\alpha=1, and let II be the moment of inertia. A motion has constant moment of inertia when II is constant in time. Saari's original conjecture. If a motion has constant moment of inertia, then it is a relative equilibrium: the bodies rotate about their centre of mass as though fixed in a rigid body. The conjecture was proved for the three-body problem with general masses in spatial dimension at least two, but the statement as presented for the general NN-body problem is not resolved here.

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Toshiaki Fujiwara, Hiroshi Fukuda, Hiroshi Ozaki and Tetsuya Taniguchi, “Saari's homographic conjecture for general masses in planar three-body problem under Newton potential and a strong force potential”, arXiv:1503.00407 (2015).

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