Relative equilibria of the curved N-body problem

The guiding light of this monograph is a question easy to understand but difficult to answer: {What is the shape of the universe? In other words, how do we measure the shortest distance between two points of the physical space? Should we follow a straight line, as on a flat table, fly along a circle...

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Main Author: Diacu, Florin, 1959-2018.
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam ; Paris : Atlantis Press, ©2012.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : portraits.
Series: Atlantis series in dynamical systems ; v. 1.
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