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Stability of fixed points and associated relative equilibria of the $3$-body problem on $\mathbb S^1$ and $\mathbb S^2$

Dynamical Systems 2017-01-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove that the fixed points of the curved 3-body problem and their associated relative equilibria are Lyapunov stable if the solutions are restricted to S1\mathbb S^1, but unstable if the bodies are considered in S2\mathbb S^2.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03339,
  title  = {Stability of fixed points and associated relative equilibria of the $3$-body problem on $\mathbb S^1$ and $\mathbb S^2$},
  author = {Florin Diacu and Juan Manuel Sánchez-Cerritos and Shuqiang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03339},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures