Uniqueness of the equal-eigenvalue balanced configuration in the 3-body problem in four dimensions

Let a balanced configuration of the three-body problem in R4\mathbb{R}^4 have angular momentum LL and eigenvalues μ1\mu_1 and μ2\mu_2. Uniqueness conjecture. For any choice of masses, a unique balanced configuration allows a relative-equilibrium motion with given angular momentum LL and equal eigenvalues

μ1=μ2.\mu_1=\mu_2.

The claim would imply that short balanced families do not reach k=1/4k=1/4 and, together with the proposition on cusps, that each short family has at least one cusp; the source presents existence and uniqueness as apparent rather than established.

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Alain Albouy and Holger R. Dullin, “Relative equilibria of the 3-body problem in R^4”, arXiv:2002.00649 (2020).

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