English
Related papers

Related papers: Separation of Potentials in the Two-Body Problem

200 papers

Given two points in the plane, and a set of "obstacles" given as curves through the plane with assigned weights, we consider the point-separation problem, which asks for the minimum-weight subset of the obstacles separating the two points.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Anurag Murty Naredla

One of the oldest problems in physics is that of calculating the motion of $N$ particles under a specified mutual force: the $N$-body problem. Much is known about this problem if the specified force is non-relativistic gravity, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-10 Robert B. Mann

The two-body problem with a central interaction on simply connected constant curvature spaces of an arbitrary dimension is considered. The explicit expression for the quantum two-body Hamiltonian via a radial differential operator and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Shchepetilov , I. E. Stepanova

Consider the dynamics of two point masses on a surface of constant curvature subject to an attractive force analogue of Newton's inverse square law. When the distance between the bodies is sufficiently small, the reduced equations of motion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Connor Jackman

We describe a procedure to solve an up to $2N$ problem where the particles are separated topologically in $N$ groups with at most two particles in each. Arbitrary interactions are allowed between the (two) particles within one group. All…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 J. R. Armstrong , A. G. Volosniev , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

The problem of the description of two interacting particles is considered. It is shown that it can be reduced to the description of one particle in an external static potential even in a relativistic case. The method is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 A. B. Arbuzov , T. V. Kopylova , A. B. Zhunisbayev

The relativistic two-body problem is considered for spinless particles subject to an external macroscopic electromagnetic field. When this field is made of the monochromatic superposition of two counter-propagating plane waves (and provided…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-27 Philippe Droz-Vincent

We consider a bound system of charged particles moving in an external electromagnetic field, including leading relativistic corrections. The difference from the point particle with a magnetic moment comes from the presence of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Krzysztof Pachucki , Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Previous work established a universal form for the equation of motion of small bodies in theories of a metric and other tensor fields that have second-order field equations following from a covariant Lagrangian in four spacetime dimensions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Samuel E Gralla

The Classical Newtonian problem of describing the free motions of N gravitating bodies which form an isolated system in free space has been considered. It is well known from the Poincares Dictum that the problem is not exactly solvable.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 AbuBakr Mehmood , Syed Umer Abbas Shah , Ghulam Shabbir

We consider the two body problem with central interaction on two point homogeneous spaces from point of view of the invariant differential operators theory. The representation of the two particle Hamiltonian in terms of the radial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexey V. Shchepetilov

The paper deals with an analytical study of various corrected Newtonian potentials. We offer a complete description of the corrected potentials, for the entire range of the parameters involved. These parameters can be fixed for different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 M. -C. Anisiu , I. Szücs-Csillik

Two-body matrix elements of arbitrary local interactions are written as the sum of separable terms in a way that is well suited for the exchange and pairing channels present in mean-field calculations. The expansion relies on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-29 L. M. Robledo

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals, in which solar-mass compact bodies spiral into supermassive black holes, are an important potential source for gravitational wave detectors. Because of the extreme mass-ratio, one can model these systems using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-22 Adam Pound

The problem of the two-body gravitational interaction has been solved numerically based on the classical mechanics principles. One of the bodies is a deformable three-axis ellipsoid (central body) and the other is a material point…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Dmitry G. Kiryan , George V. Kiryan

We present an exact solution to the problem of the relativistic motion of 2 point masses in $(1+1)$ dimensional dilaton gravity. The motion of the bodies is governed entirely by their mutual gravitational influence, and the spacetime metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. B. Mann , T. Ohta

We consider the problem of the motion of $N$ bodies in a self-gravitating system in two spacetime dimensions. We point out that this system can be mapped onto the quantum-mechanical problem of an N-body generalization of the problem of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. S. Farrugia , R. B. Mann , T. C. Scott

We give a self-contained presentation and comparison of two different algorithms to explicitly solve quantum many body models of indistinguishable particles moving on a circle and interacting with two-body potentials of $1/\sin^2$-type. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Edwin Langmann

The virial theorem is considered for a system of randomly moving particles that are tightly bound to each other by the gravitational and electromagnetic fields, acceleration field and pressure field. The kinetic energy of the particles of…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Sergey G. Fedosin

The dynamics of systems of multiple gravitationally interacting bodies is often studied in a frame attached to one of the objects (e.g. a central star in a planetary system). As this frame is generally non-inertial, indirect forces appear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Roman R. Rafikov