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We construct a highly-symmetric periodic orbit of eight bodies in three dimensions. In this orbit, each body collides with its three nearest neighbors in a regular periodic fashion. Regularization of the collisions in the orbit is achieved…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Skyler Simmons

A novel approach for solving equations of motion of finite-sized satellite supposed to be moving in a proximity and around the planet in the elliptic restricted three-body problem, ER3BP is presented in this semi-analytical investigation.…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Sergey Ershkov , Dmytro Leshchenko , Alla Rachinskaya

Using geometric mechanics methods, we examine aspects of the dynamics of n mass points in $\mathbb{R}^4$ with a general pairwise potential. We investigate the central force problem, set up the n-body problem and discuss certain properties…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Tanya Schmah , Cristina Stoica

Some properties of the periodic solution of the three-body problem where three particles of equal mass follow the same trajectory are discussed. This trajectory has the shape of a figure-8. The three particles have a constant separation in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-07-21 F. L. Janssens

We study the influence of relativity on the chaotic properties and dynamical outcomes of an unstable triple system; the Pythagorean three-body problem. To this end, we extend the Brutus N-body code to include Post-Newtonian pairwise terms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Tjarda C. N. Boekholt , Arend Moerman , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

We study the secular effects in the motion of an asteroid with negligible mass in a spatial restricted elliptic three body problem with arbitrary inclination. Averaging over mean anomalies of the asteroid and the planet are applied to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Xiumin Huang , Yan Luo , Kaicheng Sheng , Yiru Ye

We study the spatial isosceles three body problem, which is a system with two degrees of freedom after modulo the rotation symmetry. For certain choices of energy and angular momentum, we find some disk-like global surfaces of section with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Xijun Hu , Lei Liu , Yuwei Ou , Guowei Yu

A very few three-dimensional (3D) periodic orbits of general three-body problem (with three finite masses) have been discovered since Newton mentioned it in 1680s. Using a high-accuracy numerical strategy we discovered 10,059…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-14 Xiaoming Li , Shijun Liao

In this paper, we first describe how we can arrange any bodies on Figure-Eight without collision in a dense subset of $[0,T]$ after showing that the self-intersections of Figure-Eight will not happen in this subset. Then it is reasonable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leshun Xu , Yong Li

We use variational minimizing methods to study spatial restricted N+1-body problems with a zero mass moving on the vertical axis of the moving plane for N equal masses. We prove that the minimizer of the Lagrangian action on the anti-T/2 or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Fengying Li , Shiqing Zhang , Xiaoxiao Zhao

The description of unstable motions in the Restricted Planar Circular 3-Body Problem, modeling the dynamics of a Sun-Planet-Asteriod system, is one of the fundamental problems in Celestial Mechanics. The goal of this paper is to analyze…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Inmaculada Baldomá , Mar Giralt , Marcel Guardia

We study the dynamics of the collinear points in the planar, restricted three-body problem, assuming that the primaries move on an elliptic orbit around a common barycenter. The equations of motion can be conveniently written in a rotating…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alessandra Celletti , Christoph Lhotka , Giuseppe Pucacco

The subject is brake orbits for the 3-body problem: orbits where all velocities are zero at some instant. We extract a paradox and a mystery out of a recent database of 30 non-collision periodic brake orbits for the equal mass 3-body…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Richard Montgomery

In this work we are interested in the central configurations of the spatial seven-body problem where six of them are at vertices of two congruents equilateral triangles belong to parallel planes and one triangle is a rotation by the angle…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Allyson Oliveira

In this paper, we study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity. Assuming point particles and total encounter energies $\le$ 0, the problem has three possible outcomes. We describe each outcome as a series of discrete…

We study the stability regions and families of periodic orbits of two planets locked in a co-orbital configuration. We consider different ratios of planetary masses and orbital eccentricities, also we assume that both planets share the same…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. A. Giuppone , C. Beaugé , T. A. Michtchenko , S. Ferraz-Mello

Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Yamada, Asada, Phys. Rev. D 82, 104019 (2010)], we investigate collinear solutions to the general relativistic three-body problem. We prove the uniqueness of the configuration for given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Kei Yamada , Hideki Asada

We investigate the natural families of periodic orbits associated with the equilibrium configurations of the the planar restricted $1+n$ body problem for the case $2\leq n \leq 4$ equal mass satellites. Such periodic orbits can be used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Patricia Verrier , Colin McInnes

This paper investigates the secular motion of a massless asteroid within the framework of the double-averaged elliptic restricted three-body problem. By employing Poincar\'e variables, we analyze the stability properties of asteroid orbits…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Yan Luo , Kaicheng Sheng

In (Fusco et. al., 2011) several periodic orbits of the Newtonian N-body problem have been found as minimizers of the Lagrangian action in suitable sets of T-periodic loops, for a given T>0. Each of them share the symmetry of one Platonic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Marco Fenucci , Giovanni Federico Gronchi