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Existence and Stability of Symmetric Periodic Simultaneous Binary Collision Orbits in the Planar Pairwise Symmetric Four-Body Problem

Dynamical Systems 2015-05-18 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We extend our previous analytic existence of a symmetric periodic simultaneous binary collision orbit in a regularized fully symmetric equal mass four-body problem to the analytic existence of a symmetric periodic simultaneous binary collision orbit in a regularized planar pairwise 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 mm between 0 and 1. Numerical estimates of the the characteristic multipliers show that these periodic orbits are linearly stability when 0.54m10.54\leq m\leq 1, and are linearly unstable when 0<m0.530<m\leq0.53.

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@article{arxiv.1002.2161,
  title  = {Existence and Stability of Symmetric Periodic Simultaneous Binary Collision Orbits in the Planar Pairwise Symmetric Four-Body Problem},
  author = {Lennard F. Bakker and Tiancheng Ouyang and Duokui Yan and Skyler Simmons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2161},
  year   = {2015}
}

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