# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2020, 13(4): 1131-1143. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020067

## Almost all 3-body relative equilibria on $\mathbb S^2$ and $\mathbb H^2$ are inclined

 1 Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

* Corresponding author: Shuqiang Zhu

Dedicated to Jürgen Scheurle on the occasion of his 65th birthday
Editors' Note: Florin Diacu passed away on February 13, 2018 before this manuscript could be published. He will be missed by his colleagues, as a mathematician and as a person.

Received  November 2017 Revised  March 2018 Published  April 2019

Fund Project: Florin Diacu is supported by Yale-NUS startup grant, and Shuqiang Zhu is supported by NSFC(No.11801537, No.11721101) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.WK0010450010).

We answer here a question posed by F. Diacu in 2012 that asked whether there exist relative equilibria on $\mathbb S^2$ and $\mathbb H^2$ that move in a plane non-perpendicular to the rotation axis. For 3-body non-geodesic ordinary central configurations on $\mathbb S^2$ and $\mathbb H^2$, we find all relative equilibria that move in a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis. We also show that the set of shapes of 3-body non-geodesic ordinary central configurations on $\mathbb S^2$ and $\mathbb H^2$ is a 3-dimensional manifold. Then we conclude that almost all 3-body relative equilibria move in planes non-perpendicular to the rotation axis.

Citation: Florin Diacu, Shuqiang Zhu. Almost all 3-body relative equilibria on $\mathbb S^2$ and $\mathbb H^2$ are inclined. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2020, 13 (4) : 1131-1143. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020067
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##### References:
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Lagrangian central configurations on $\mathbb H^2$
An $\mathbb S^2$ central configuration on $z = c$
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