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Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 679063, 18 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/679063
Research Article

Existence and Linear Stability of Equilibrium Points in the Robe’s Restricted Three-Body Problem with Oblateness

Jagadish Singh1 and Abubakar Umar Sandah2

1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
2Department of Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science, College of Science and Technology, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria

Received 26 March 2012; Accepted 2 July 2012

Academic Editor: Burak Polat

Copyright © 2012 Jagadish Singh and Abubakar Umar Sandah. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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