Red dwarves are the most common stars in our galaxy, if not the whole universe. They are small--the largest don't exceed one-half of a solar mass--but scientists still believe in their potential for habitability due simply to their lifespan. We don't exactly know how long a red dwarf can live. Some say hundreds of billions of years. Some even say trillions. But the point stands that they can support life for far longer than our sun can.
But this raises its own problems. Red dwarves are so dim that for any planets orbiting them to sustain life, they have to do so at a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very close distance--close enough for one side to be eternal day and another to be eternal night. (Not at all Earthlike, if you ask me.)
I've been advised, again and again, that pitting main-sequence stars in a trinary P-style orbit just isn't feasible. Such an arrangement won't allow for a stable orbit. But the smaller red dwarves don't seem to have that problem. So my question is this--how many red dwarves can join together to make a stable P-type orbit as well as free any nearby planets into spinning in day-night cycles?