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The restricted planar four body problem describes the motion of a massless body under the Newtonian gravitational force of other three bodies (the primaries), of which the motion gives us general solutions of the three body problem. A…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Tere Seara , Jianlu Zhang

This technical report provides an in-depth evaluation of both established and state-of-the-art methods for simulating constrained rigid multi-body systems with hard-contact dynamics, using formulations of Nonlinear Complementarity Problems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Vassilios Tsounis , Ruben Grandia , Moritz Bächer

In the last decades a peculiar family of solutions of the Circular Restricted Three Body Problem has been used to explain the temporary captures of small bodies and spacecrafts by a planet of the Solar System. These solutions, which transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Rocío Isabel Páez , Massimiliano Guzzo

There are periodic solutions to the equal-mass three-body (and N-body) problem in Newtonian gravity. The figure-eight solution is one of them. In this paper, we discuss its solution in the first and second post-Newtonian approximations to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano

We propose a family of integrators, Flow-Composed Implicit Runge-Kutta (FCIRK) methods, for perturbations of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, consisting of the composition of flows of the unperturbed part alternated with one step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Mikel Antoñana , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua

A Kepler solver is an analytical method used to solve a two-body problem. In this paper, we propose a new correction method by slightly modifying the Kepler solver. The only change to the analytical solutions is that the obtainment of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 Chen Deng , Xin Wu , Enwei Liang

The dynamics of the Restricted 3 Body Problem in the Post Newtonian context have been, and continue to be, studied extensively and a number of characteristics such as ejections of bodies from the system, precession of orbits, chaotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-07 Patric de Gentile-Williams

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 revisit the relativistic restricted two-body problem with spin employing a perturbation scheme based on Lie series. Starting from a post-Newtonian expansion of the field equations, we develop a first-order secular theory that reproduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Francesco Biscani , Sante Carloni

The purpose of the article is to derive equations that determine the trajectory of a non-conservative natural system in configuration space in non-stationary external fields. A theorem on the change in the kinetic energy of the system is…

General Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 V. Voytik

In this work we introduce a planar restricted four-body problem where a massless particle moves under the gravitational influence due to three bodies following the eight figure choreography, and we explore some symmetric periodic orbits of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Ricardo Lara , Abimael Bengochea

An accurate and efficient method dealing with the few-body dynamics is important for simulating collisional N-body systems like star clusters and to follow the formation and evolution of compact binaries. We describe such a method which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-21 Long Wang , Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino

In the Newtonian limit of $f(R)$ gravity, for an isolated self-gravitating system consisting of $N$ extended fluid bodies, the inter-body dynamics are studied by applying the symmetric and trace-free formalism in terms of irreducible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Bofeng Wu , Xiao Zhang

In this work we illustrate the basic development of the constrained molecular dynamics applied to the N-body problem in nuclear physics. The heavy computational taskes related to quantum effects, to the presence of the "hard core" repulsive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Papa , G. Giuliani , A. Bonasera

Consider the spatial Newtonian three body problem at fixed negative energy and fixed angular momentum. The moment of inertia $I$ provides a measure of the overall size of a three-body system. We will prove that there is a positive number…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Connor Jackman

The partial case of the planar $N+1$ body problem, $N\ge2$, of the type of planetary system with satellites is studied. One of the bodies (the Sun) is assumed to be much heavier than the other bodies ("planets" and "satellites"), moreover…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Elena A. Kudryavtseva

The evolution of many astrophysical systems is dominated by the interaction between matter and radiation such as photons or neutrinos. The dynamics can be described by the evolution equations of radiation hydrodynamics in which reactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Samuel Santos-Pérez , Martin Obergaulinger , Isabel Cordero-Carrión

When one wishes to numerically solve an initial value problem, it is customary to rewrite it as an equivalent first-order system to which a method, usually from the class of Runge-Kutta methods, is applied. Directly treating higher-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Loris Petronijevic

A new equation of motion, which is derived previously by imposing Neumann boundary condition on cosmological perturbation equations (Shenavar 2016 a), is investigated. By studying the precession of perihelion, it is shown that the new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Hossein Shenavar

The subjects and key questions faced by computational astrophysics using N-body simulations are discussed in the fields of globular star cluster dynamics, galactic nuclei and cosmological structure formation. After a comparison of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer Spurzem