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 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 , related to the conserved angular momentum. The limit corresponds to the 3-dimensional limit. We show that the reduced Hamiltonian has relative equilibria that are local minima and hence Lyapunov stable when 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