Conjecture on main simple choreographies in the equal mass Newtonian N-body problem
Conjecture on main simple choreographies in the equal mass Newtonian N-body problem
Let and consider the equal mass Newtonian -body problem. A main simple choreography is a simple choreography that is not derived from a given simple choreography by traveling around it multiple times, by a continuation of the angular momentum, or by a combination of both. The trivial circle solution is the rotating -gon.
Main choreography conjecture. For every , there is a main simple choreography solution different from the trivial circle solution. The number of such distinct main simple choreographies grows rapidly with .
This conjecture arises from numerical discoveries and predicts that the Newtonian problem has many genuinely distinct simple choreographies beyond the rotating -gon. The supplied text does not state a resolution, so its status remains open.
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Guowei Yu, “Simple choreographies of the planar Newtonian N-body Problem”, arXiv:1509.04999 (2016).
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