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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
We investigate the orbital behavior in a class of analytic potentials in order to isolate the families of orbits which lead to the appropriate appearance of boxy/peanut features. This is the first step towards understanding the orbits of particles in N-body simulations of barred galaxies. Our final goal is to find out which dynamical mechanisms determine the peanut or boxy shapes.