From Quasars to Extraordinary N-body Problems
arXiv:astro-ph/9812092 · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11247.x
Abstract
We outline reasoning that led to the current theory of quasars and look at George Contopoulos's place in the long history of the N-body problem. Following Newton we find new exactly soluble N-body problems with multibody forces and give a strange eternally pulsating system that in its other degrees of freedom reaches statistical equilibrium.
13 pages, LaTeX with 1 postscript figure included. To appear in Proceedings of New York Academy of Sciences, 13th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics