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Quantitative stability of certain families of periodic solutions in the Sitnikov problem

Dynamical Systems 2016-12-22 v1

Abstract

The Sitnikov problem is a special case of the restricted three-body problem where the primaries moves in elliptic orbits of the two-body problem with eccentricity e[0,1[e\in [0,1[ and the massless body moves on a straight line perpendicular to the plane of motion of the primaries through their barycenter. It is well known that for the circular case (e=0e=0) and a given NNN\in \mathbb{N} there are a finite number of nontrivial symmetric 2Nπ2N\pi periodic solutions all of them parabolic and unstable (in the Lyapunov sense) if we consider the corresponding autonomous equation like a 2π2\pi-periodic equation. Using the method of global continuation of Leray-Schauder, J.Llibre and R.Ortega (J.Llibre &\& R. Ortega, 2008) proved that these families of periodic solutions can be continued from the known 2Nπ2N\pi-periodic solutions in the circular case for nonnecessarily small values of the eccentricity ee and in some cases for all values of e[0,1[.e\in \, [0,1[. However this approach does not say anything about the stability properties of this periodic solutions. In this document we present a new method that quantifies the mentioned bifurcating families and them stabilities properties at least in first approximation. Our approach proposes two general methods: The first one is to estimate the growing of the canonical solutions for one-parametric differential equation of the form x¨+a(t,λ)x=0, \ddot{x}+a(t,\lambda)x=0, with aC1([0,T]×[0,Λ])a\in C^{1}([0,T] \times [0,\Lambda]). The second one gives stability criteria for one-parametric Hill's equation of the form x¨+q(t,λ)x=0,() \ddot{x}+q(t,\lambda)x=0, \quad (\ast) where q(,λ)q(\cdot,\lambda) is TT-periodic and qC3(R×[0,Λ])q\in C^{3}(\mathbb{R}\times [0,\Lambda]), such that for λ=0\lambda=0 the equation ()(*) is parabolic.

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@article{arxiv.1612.07254,
  title  = {Quantitative stability of certain families of periodic solutions in the Sitnikov problem},
  author = {Jorge Galán and Daniel Núñez and Andrés Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07254},
  year   = {2016}
}