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It follows from the Poisson brackets between constants of motion that the motion of four vortices of zero net vorticity is integrable if the total momentum vanishes. The phase space motion of this integrable case is analyzed. One stable and several unstable uniformly rotating configurations are identified.
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Bruno Eckhardt (1988) studied this question.
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