Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences
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Journal

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences


Volume
& Issue

Volume 1, Issue 1


Published
on

June 2, 2016


Pages

301-310


DOI

Article

Relative Equilibria in the 4-Vortex Problem Bifurcating from an Equilateral Triangle Configuration

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Authors

Ernesto Pérez-Chavela Affiliation:
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Departamento de Matemáticas, Mexico, Mexico
and Claudia Tamayo Affiliation:
UAM-Iztapalapa, Departamento de Matemáticas, Mexico, Mexico


Abstract

We study the relative equilibria in the 4-vortex problem when two of vorticities are equal to 1, and the other two equal to m are enough small. We prove that for m > 0 there is a unique concave kite relative equilibria. We also prove that there is a unique convex planar relative equilibria having two pairs of equal vorticities located at the adjacent vertices of the configuration and it is an isosceles trapezoid.


Keywords

n-vortex problem, relative equilibria, bifurcations of relative equilibria, 76F20, 37C10


Citation

Pérez-Chavela, E. & Tamayo, C. (2016). Relative equilibria in the 4-Vortex problem bifurcating from an equilateral triangle configuration. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 1(1), 301–310. https://doi.org/10.21042/AMNS.2016.1.00025

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