Critical homoclinics in a restricted four body problem: numerical continuation and center manifold computations
Dynamical Systems
2021-02-24 v2
Abstract
The present work studies the robustness of certain basic homoclinic motions in an equilateral restricted four body problem. The problem can be viewed as a two parameter family of conservative autonomous vector fields. The main tools are numerical continuation techniques for homoclinic and periodic orbits, as well as formal series methods for computing normal forms and center stable/unstable manifold parameterizations. After careful numerical study of a number of special cases we formulate several conjectures about the global bifurcations of the homoclinic families.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.12531,
title = {Critical homoclinics in a restricted four body problem: numerical continuation and center manifold computations},
author = {Wouter Hetebrij and J. D. Mireles James},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12531},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
38 pages, 21 figures, fixed several typos, expanded the introduction and added a new appendix about numerical continuation of orbits