Special Session 42: Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics

A new class of pyramidal central configurations for spatial Newtonian 6-body problems
Liang Ding
Guizhou Minzu University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Liang Ding, Jin Wang, Jinrong Wang and Zhifu Xie
Abstract:
While it is known that a non-concyclic rhombus can form a central configuration in the planar 4-body problem, such a base is forbidden for pyramidal central configurations in the spatial 5-body problem. This paper demonstrates that this restriction does not hold for the spatial 6-body problem. We give an analytical proof of the existence of a novel class of pyramidal central configurations with a non-concyclic quadrilateral base, a structure that distinguishes them from all known spatial 5-body pyramidal central configurations. We derive several key properties associated with these new central configurations. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this new class can be utilized to construct perverse solutions in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. We support our theoretical findings with numerical examples for each case.