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Null Angular Momentum and Weak KAM Solutions of the Newtonian $N$-Body Problem

Dynamical Systems 2017-08-25 v2

Abstract

In [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 213 (2014), 981-991] it has been proved that in the Newtonian NN-body problem, given a minimal central configuration aa and an arbitrary configuration xx, there exists a completely parabolic orbit starting on xx and asymptotic to the homothetic parabolic motion of aa, furthermore such an orbit is a free time minimizer of the action functional. In this article we extend this result in abundance of completely parabolic motions by proving that under the same hypothesis it is possible to get that the completely parabolic motion starting at xx has zero angular momentum. We achieve this by characterizing the rotation invariant weak KAM solutions as those defining a lamination on the configuration space by free time minimizers with zero angular momentum.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01573,
  title  = {Null Angular Momentum and Weak KAM Solutions of the Newtonian $N$-Body Problem},
  author = {Boris A. Percino-Figueroa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01573},
  year   = {2017}
}