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In 1999 Chenciner and Montgomery found a remarkably simple choreographic motion for the planar 3-body problem (see \cite{CM}). In this solution 3 equal masses travel on a eight shaped planar curve; this orbit is obtained minimizing the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Vivina Barutello , Susanna Terracini

We present the results of a numerical search for periodic orbits with zero angular momentum in the Newtonian planar three-body problem with equal masses focused on a narrow search window bracketing the figure-eight initial conditions. We…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Milovan Šuvakov

Based on the works of Gordon ([4]) and Zhang-Zhou([8])) on the variational minimizing properties for Keplerian orbits and Lagrangian solutions of Newtonian 2-body and 3-body problems, we use the constrained variational principle of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Ying Lv , Shiqing Zhang

Advances in the variational approach to the $n$-body problem have led to significant progress in celestial mechanics, uncovering new types of possible orbits. In this paper, critical points of the Lagrangian action associated with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Roberto Ciccarelli , Margaux Introna , Susanna Terracini , Massimiliano Vasile

We introduce a restricted four body problem in a 2+2 configuration extending the classical Sitnikov problem to the Double Sitnikov problem. The secondary bodies are moving on the same perpendicular line to the planewhere the primaries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 H. Jiménez-Pérez , E. Lacomba

When we use variational methods to study the Newtonian $N$-body problem, the main problem is how to avoid collisions. C.Marchal got a remarkable result, that is, a path minimizing the Lagrangian action functional between two given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Xiang Yu , Shiqing Zhang

We study the problem of minimal resistance for a body moving with constant velocity in a rarefied medium of chaotically moving point particles, in Euclidean space R^d. The particles distribution over velocities is radially symmetric. Under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Plakhov , Delfim F. M. Torres

We establish the existence of non-constant periodic solutions to the Lorentz force equation, where no scalar potential is needed to induce the electromagnetic field. Our results extend to cases where a possibly singular scalar potential is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Manuel Garzón , Salvador López-Martínez

In this paper we classify the central configurations of the circular restricted 4-body problem with three primaries at the collinear configuration of the 3-body problem and an infinitesimal mass. The case where the three primaries have the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Oscar Perdomo

We consider the plane 3 body problem with 2 of the masses small. Periodic solutions with near collisions of small bodies were named by Poincar\'e second species periodic solutions. Such solutions shadow chains of collision orbits of 2…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-13 Sergey Bolotin , Piero Negrini

The simplest solutions of the N-body problem --symmetric relative equilibria-- are shown to be organizing centers from which stem some recently studied classes of periodic solutions. We focus on the relative equilibrium of the equal-mass…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Alain Chenciner , Jacques Féjoz

The main problem is to understand and to find periodic symmetric orbits in the $n$-body problem, in the sense of finding methods to prove or compute their existence, and more importantly to describe their qualitative and quantitative…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-05-20 D. L. Ferrario

We extend our previous analytic existence of a symmetric periodic simultaneous binary collision orbit in a regularized fully symmetric equal mass four-body problem to the analytic existence of a symmetric periodic simultaneous binary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Lennard F. Bakker , Tiancheng Ouyang , Duokui Yan , Skyler Simmons

We consider the planar $N$-centre problem, with homogeneous potentials of degree $-\a<0$, $\a \in [1,2)$. We prove the existence of infinitely many collisions-free periodic solutions with negative and small energy, for any distribution of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Nicola Soave , Susanna Terracini

Existence of stationary solutions to a nonlocal fourth-order elliptic obstacle problem arising from the modelling of microelectromechanical systems with heterogeneous dielectric properties is shown. The underlying variational structure of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Philippe Laurençot , Christoph Walker

The Newtonian restricted three-body problem involving a positive primary point mass, $m_+$, and a negative secondary point mass, $m_-$, in a circular orbit, and a positive or negative tertiary point mass, $m_3$, with $m_+ > |m_-| \gg…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 K. H. Thong , A. Melatos

Novel method for semi-analytical solving of equations of a trapped dynamics for a planetoid m4 close to the plane of mutual motion of main bodies around each other (in case of a special type of Bi-Elliptic Restricted 4-Bodies Problem) is…

General Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sergey V. Ershkov , Dmytro Leshchenko , Alla Rachinskaya

In the circular restricted three-body problem, low energy transit orbits are revealed by linearizing the governing differential equations about the collinear Lagrange points. This procedure fails when time-periodic perturbations are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Joshua Fitzgerald , Shane Ross

This work is devoted to the study of some exactly solvable quantum problems of four, five and six bodies moving on the line. We solve completely the corresponding stationary Schr\"odinger equation for these systems confined in an harmonic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 A. Bachkhaznadji , M. Lassaut

Solutions to the collinear three-body problem which do not end in triple collision pass through an infinite number of binary collisions. Given three masses, we show that four geometric quantities generate a finite description of itineraries…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel R. Kaplan