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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

The continuation of resonant periodic orbits from the restricted to the general three body problem is studied in a systematic way. Starting from the Keplerian unperturbed system we obtain the resonant families of the circular restricted…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 G. Voyatzis , T. Kotoulas , J. D. Hadjidemetriou

We consider the general spatial three body problem and study the dynamics of planetary systems consisting of a star and two planets which evolve into 2/1 mean motion resonance and into inclined orbits. Our study is focused on the periodic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 K. I. Antoniadou , G. Voyatzis

The planar circular restricted three body problem (PCRTBP) is symmetric with respect to the line of masses and there is a corresponding anti-symplectic involution on the cotangent bundle of the 2-sphere in the regularized PCRTBP. Recently…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-16 Jungsoo Kang

Using the wrapped Floer homology, we prove the existence of consecutive collisions at the primaries in the circular restricted three-body problem. We also prove the existence of a symmetric periodic orbit. These existence results are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Filip Broćić , Urs Frauenfelder

The character of motion for the three-dimensional circular restricted three-body problem with oblate primaries is investigated. The orbits of the test particle are classified into four types: non-escaping regular orbits around the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-09 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Jan Nagler

We present a method for proving the existence of symmetric periodic, heteroclinic or homoclinic orbits in dynamical systems with the reversing symmetry. As an application we show that the Planar Restricted Circular Three Body Problem…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-10 D. Wilczak , P. Zgliczynski

The case of the planar circular restricted three-body problem where one of the two primaries has a stronger gravitational field with respect to the classical Newtonian field is investigated. We consider the case where two primaries have the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

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

We present a systematic methodology to determine and locate analytically isolated periodic points of discrete and continuous dynamical systems with algebraic nature. We apply this method to a wide range of examples, including a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Armengol Gasull , Víctor Mañosa

We construct a highly-symmetric periodic orbit of six bodies in three dimensions. In this orbit, binary collisions occur at the origin in a regular periodic fashion, rotating between pairs of bodies located on the coordinate axes.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Skyler Simmons

In the circular case of the coplanar Restricted Three-body Problem, we studied how the family of quasi-satellite (QS) periodic orbits allows to define an associated libration center. Using the averaged problem, we highlighted a validity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Alexandre Pousse , Philippe Robutel , Alain Vienne

The Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CR3BP) models the motion of a massless body under the gravitational influence of two primaries. We present a method for approximating a given family of periodic orbits by low-degree implicit…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ruiqi Huang , Anton Leykin

We study three sub-problems of the N-body problem that have two degrees of freedom, namely the n-pyramidal problem, the planar double-polygon problem, and the spatial double-polygon problem. We prove the existence of several families of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Nai-Chia Chen

When the Poincar\'{e} map associated with a periodic orbit of a hybrid dynamical system has constant-rank iterates, we demonstrate the existence of a constant-dimensional invariant subsystem near the orbit which attracts all nearby…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Samuel Burden , Shai Revzen , S. Shankar Sastry

An analytical approximation to periodic orbits in the circular restricted three-body problem is provided. The formulation given in this work is based in calculations known from classical mechanics, but with the addition of the necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erick Nagel , Barbara Pichardo

We study orbits near collision in a non-autonomous restricted planar four-body problem. This restricted problem consists of a massless particle moving under the gravitational influence due to three bodies following the figure-eight…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Abimael Bengochea , Jaime Burgos-García , Ernesto Pérez-Chavela

We present the results of a numerical search for periodic orbits of three equal masses moving in a plane under the influence of Newtonian gravity, with zero angular momentum. A topological method is used to classify periodic three-body…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Milovan Šuvakov , V. Dmitrašinović

In this work, we study the periodic orbits in the spatial isosceles three-body problem. These periodic orbits form a one-parameter set with a rotation angle $\theta$ as the parameter. Some new phenomenons are discovered by applying our…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Duokui Yan , Tiancheng Ouyang

We demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of boundary value formulations coupled to numerical continuation for the computation of stable and unstable manifolds in systems of ordinary differential equations. Specifically, we consider the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Renato C. Calleja , Eusebius J. Doedel , Antony R. Humphries , Alexandra Lemus , Bart E. Oldeman