New classes of spatial central configurations for the 7-body problem

In this paper we show the existence of new families of spatial central configurations for the 7-body problem. In the studied spatial central configurations, six bodies are at the vertices of two equilateral triangles , and one body is located out of the parallel distinct planes containing and . The results have simple and analytic proofs.

Central Configurations for NewtonianN+2p+1-Body Problems

We show the existence of spatial central configurations for theN+2p+1-body problems. In theN+2p+1-body problems,Nbodies are at the vertices of a regularN-gonT;2pbodies are symmetric with respect to the center ofT, and located on the straight line which is perpendicular to the regularN-gonTand passes through the center ofT; theN+2p+1th is located at the the center ofT. The masses located on the vertices of the regularN-gon are assumed to be equal; the masses located on the same line and symmetric with respect to the center ofTare equal.

Spatial Central Configurations with Two Twisted Regular 4-Gons

We study the configuration formed by two squares in two parallel layers separated by a distance. We picture the two layers horizontally with thez-axis passing through the centers of the two squares. The masses located on the vertices of each square are equal, but we do not assume that the masses of the top square are equal to the masses of the bottom square. We prove that the above configuration of two squares forms a central configuration if and only if the twist angle is equal tokπ/2or (π/4+kπ/2)(k=1,2,3,4).

New spatial central configurations in the 5-body problem

In this paper we show the existence of new families of convex and concave spatial central configurations for the 5-body problem. The bodies studied here are arranged as follows: three bodies are at the vertices of an equilateral triangle T, and the other two bodies are on the line passing through the barycenter of T that is perpendicular to the plane that contains T.