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Symmetry reduction of the 3-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^4$

Dynamical Systems 2020-09-07 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Classical Physics

Abstract

The 3-body problem in R4\mathbb{R}^4 has 24 dimensions and is invariant under translations and rotations. We do the full symplectic symmetry reduction and obtain a reduced Hamiltonian in local symplectic coordinates on a reduced phase space with 8 dimensions. The Hamiltonian depends on two parameters μ1>μ20\mu_1 > \mu_2 \ge 0, related to the conserved angular momentum. The limit μ20\mu_2 \to 0 corresponds to the 3-dimensional limit. We show that the reduced Hamiltonian has relative equilibria that are local minima and hence Lyapunov stable when μ2\mu_2 is sufficiently small. This proves the existence of balls of initial conditions of full dimension that do not contain any orbits that are unbounded.

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@article{arxiv.1908.04496,
  title  = {Symmetry reduction of the 3-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^4$},
  author = {Holger R. Dullin and Jürgen Scheurle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04496},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 2 figures