University of Connecticut
Department of Mathematics

Richard Montgomery Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus Office: Telephone: (860) 405-9192 Fax: email: rmontgom@uconnvm.uconn.edu

• The N-body problem, the braid group, and action-minimizing periodic solutions, Nonlinearity 11 (1998), no. 2, 363--376.
• (with Kazarian, Maxim; Shapiro, Boris)Characteristic classes for the degenerations of two-plane fields in four dimensions, Pacific J. Math. 179 (1997), no. 2, 355--370.
• Survey of singular geodesics. Sub-Riemannian geometry, 325--339, Progr. Math., 144, 1996.
• The geometric phase of the three-body problem, Nonlinearity 9 (1996), no. 5, 1341--1360.