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This article describes the chief geometrical features of the clustering of small numbers of interacting particles. The approach is quite different from others which consider the problem as one of finding dense packings of spheres.
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HOARE, M., PAL, P. Statics and Stability of Small Cluster Nuclei. Nature Physical Science 230, 5–8 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci230005a0
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