## Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

### A physically consistent, discrete $n$-body model

Donald Greenspan

#### Article information

Source
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 80, Number 3 (1974), 553-555.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 4 July 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183535541

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR0337085

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0284.70007

Subjects
Primary: 65L05: Initial value problems 70F10: $n$-body problems

#### Citation

Greenspan, Donald. A physically consistent, discrete $n$-body model. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 80 (1974), no. 3, 553--555. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183535541

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