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A celebrated result of Bertrand states that the only central force potentials on the plane with the property that all bounded orbits are periodic are the Kepler potential and the potential of the harmonic oscillator. In this paper, we…
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In this paper, we consider a time-periodically forced Kepler problem in any dimensions, with an external force which we only assume to be regular in a neighborhood of the attractive center. We prove that there exist infinitely many periodic…
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Regularization of damped motion under central forces in two and three-dimensions are investigated and equivalent, undamped systems are obtained. The dynamics of a particle moving in $\frac{1}{r}$ potential and subjected to a damping force…