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Title Topology of Symmetric Loops Spaces

Name James A Montaldi
Country England
Email j.montaldi@manchester.ac.uk
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Submit Time 2014-02-04 09:17:11
Session
Special Session 105: Geometric mechanics
Contents
Motivated by the search for symmetric periodic orbits of the n-body problem in the form of choreographies, I describe a method for determining the topology of the space of symmetric loops, for given spatio-temporal symmetry groups. In the example of choreographies, this is related to conjugacy in subgroups of the braid group and their cosets.