Periodic solutions to some problems of n-body type

We prove the existence of at least one T-periodic solution to a dynamical system of the type $$ - m_i ddot u_i = sumlimits_{j = 1,j ne i}^n {triangledown V_{ij} (u_i - u_j ,{text{ }}t)}$$ (1) where the potentials V _ij are T-periodic in t and singular at the origin, u _i ε R ^k i=1, ..., n, and k≧3. We also provide estimates on the H ¹ norm of this solution. The proofs are based on a variant of the Ljusternik-Schnirelman method. The results here generalize to the n-body problem some results obtained by Bahri & Rabinowitz on the 3-body problem in [6].