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On the integrability of the n-centre problem

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It is known that for n3n \geq 3 centres and positive energies the nn-centre problem of celestial mechanics leads to a flow with a strange repellor and positive topological entropy. Here we consider the energies above some threshold and show: Whereas for arbitrary g>1g >1 independent integrals of Gevrey class gg exist, no real-analytic (that is, Gevrey class 1) independent integral exists.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0401202,
  title  = {On the integrability of the n-centre problem},
  author = {Andreas Knauf and Iskander A. Taimanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0401202},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

22 pages, a short announcement see in math.DS/0312429