Central configurations of the circular restricted 4-body problem with three equal primaries in the collinear central configuration of the-3 body problem
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In this paper we classify the central configurations of the circular restricted 4-body problem with three primaries with equal masses at the collinear configuration of the 3-body problem and an infinitisimal mass.
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