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This paper gives an analytic proof of the existence of Schubart-like orbit, a periodic orbit with singularities in the symmetric collinear four-body problem. In each period of the Schubart-like orbit, there is a binary collision (BC) between the inner two bodies and a simultaneous binary collision (SBC) of the two clusters on both sides of the origin. The system is regularized and the existence is proved by using a 'turning point' technique and a continuity argument on differential equations of the regularized Hamiltonian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analytically prove the existence of a symmetric periodic simultaneous binary collision orbit in a regularized planar pairwise symmetric equal mass four-body problem. This is an extension of our previous proof of the analytic existence of a symmetric periodic simultaneous binary collision orbit in a regularized planar fully symmetric equal mass four-body problem. We then use a continuation method to numerically find symmetric periodic simultaneous binary collision orbits in a regularized planar pairwise symmetric 1, m, 1, m four-body problem for m between 0 and 1. Numerical estimates of the the characteristic multipliers show that these periodic orbits are linearly stability when 0.54 ≤ m ≤ 1, and are linearly unstable when 0 < m ≤ 0.53. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A correction to the article "Existence and Stability of Symmetric Periodic Simultaneous Binary Collision Orbits in the Planar Pairwise Symmetric Four-Body Problem" that was published in the March 31, 2012 online issue is presented.