(1) Grupo de Mecánica Espacial and Instituto Universitario de Matemáticas y Aplicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain;(2) Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15773, Greece
Abstract:
We prove that for generalized forces which are function of the mutual distance, the ring n + 1 configuration is a central configuration. Besides, we show that it is a homographic solution. We apply the above results to quasi-homogeneous potentials.