Relative Equilibria of the Curved N-Body Problem

by Florin Diacu

Book Overview

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, as between Paris and New York, or take some other path, and if so, what would that path look like? If you accept that the model proposed here, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 946239038X
• ISBN13: 9789462390386
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Atlantis Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"