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Linear stability of elliptic relative equilibria of four-body problem with two infinitesimal masses

Mathematical Physics 2023-10-03 v1 Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the elliptic relative equilibria of four-body problem with two infinitesimal masses. The most interesting case is when the two small masses tend to the same Lagrangian point L4L_4 (or L5L_5). In \cite{Xia}, Z. Xia showed that there exist four central configurations: two of them are non-convex, and the other two are convex. We prove that the elliptic relative equilibria raised from the non-convex central configurations are always linearly unstable; while for the elliptic relative equilibria raised from the convex central configurations, the conditions of linear stability with respect to the parameters are given.

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@article{arxiv.1908.01345,
  title  = {Linear stability of elliptic relative equilibria of four-body problem with two infinitesimal masses},
  author = {Qinglong Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01345},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

60 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1510.06822 and arXiv:1907.13475