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Extrasolar planetary systems commonly exhibit planets on eccentric orbits, with many systems located near or within mean-motion resonances, showcasing a wide diversity of orbital architectures. Such complex systems challenge traditional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Aya Alnajjarine , Federico Mogavero , Jacques Laskar

The article formulates the classical three-body problem in conformal-Euclidean space (Riemannian manifold), and its equivalence to the Newton three-body problem is mathematically rigorously proved. It is shown that a curved space with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Ashot Gevorkyan

We investigate the phase space structure of the relativistic Sitnikov problem in the first post-Newtonian approximation. The phase space portraits show a strong dependence on the gravitational radius which describes the strength of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-14 T. Kovács , Gy. Bene , T. Tél

$N$-body integrations are used to model a wide range of astrophysical dynamics, but they suffer from errors which make their orbits diverge exponentially in time from the correct orbits. Over long time-scales, their reliability needs to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 David M. Hernandez , Sam Hadden , Junichiro Makino

The conservation of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum are important drivers for our physical understanding of the evolution of the Universe. These quantities are also conserved in Newton's laws of motion under gravity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

In mathematical finance, a process of calibrating stochastic volatility (SV) option pricing models to real market data involves a numerical calculation of integrals that depend on several model parameters. This optimization task consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Josef Daněk , J. Pospíšil

The three-body problem is arguably the oldest open question in astrophysics, and has resisted a general analytic solution for centuries. Various implementations of perturbation theory provide solutions in portions of parameter space, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Nicholas C. Stone , Nathan W. C. Leigh

An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation involves the square root of an elliptic operator of second order. Finite element approximation in space is employed.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Petr N. Vabishchevich

Calculating the long term solution of ordinary differential equations, such as those of the $N$-body problem, is central to understanding a wide range of dynamics in astrophysics, from galaxy formation to planetary chaos. Because generally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 David M. Hernandez , Edmund Bertschinger

Is the universe computable? If yes, is it computationally a polynomial place? In standard quantum mechanics, which permits infinite parallelism and the infinitely precise specification of states, a negative answer to both questions is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Srikanth

Studied here is the effect of the presence of symmetry groups in a system of algebraic equations on the numerical resolution with fixed-point algorithms. It is proved that the symmetries imply two important properties of the system: the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-19 J. Alvarez , A. Duran

We deliver a call to arms for probabilistic numerical methods: algorithms for numerical tasks, including linear algebra, integration, optimization and solving differential equations, that return uncertainties in their calculations. Such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Philipp Hennig , Michael A Osborne , Mark Girolami

Periodic solutions of the three body problem are very important for understanding its dynamics either in a theoretical framework or in various applications in celestial mechanics. In this paper we discuss the computation and continuation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 George Voyatzis

The Slater-type orbital basis with non-integer principal quantum numbers is a physically and mathematically motivated choice for molecular electronic structure calculations in both non-relativistic and relativistic theory. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 A Bagci , Philip E Hoggan , M Adak

Hamiltonian normal forms allow for the analytical approximation of center manifold trajectories and their invariant manifolds through the separation of the saddle and center subspaces that make up the dynamics at the collinear libration…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Carson Hunsberger , David Schwab , Roshan Eapen , Puneet Singla

Analytical methods are used to prove the existence of a periodic, symmetric solution with singularities in the planar 4-body problem. A numerical calculation and simulation are used to generate the orbit. The analytical method easily…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-02-09 Tiancheng Ouyang , Skyler C. Simmons , Duokui Yan

The three body problem is a special case of the n body problem where one takes the initial positions and velocities of three point masses and attempts to predict their motion over time according to Newtonian laws of motion and universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Pratyush Kumar , Aishwarya Das , Debayan Gupta

The three-body problem (3BP) poses a longstanding challenge in physics and celestial mechanics. Despite the impossibility of obtaining general analytical solutions, statistical theories have been developed based on the ergodic principle.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Alessandro Alberto Trani , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Tjarda C. N. Boekholt , Simon Portegies Zwart

The three-disk system, which for many years has served as a paradigm for the usefulness of cycle expansion methods, represents an extremely hard problem to semiclassical quantization when the disks are moved closer and closer together,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Weibert , J. Main , G. Wunner

The SecularMultiple code, presented in two previous papers of this series, integrates the long-term dynamical evolution of multiple systems with any number of bodies and hierarchical structure, provided that the system is composed of nested…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Adrian S. Hamers