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Many binary systems of interest for gravitational-wave astronomy are orbited by a third distant body, which can considerably alter their relativistic dynamics. Precision computations are needed to understand the interplay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Adrien Kuntz , Francesco Serra , Enrico Trincherini

We propose a survey of Michel H\'enon works devoted to studying periodic solutions of the well-known celestial mechanics problem -- restricted three-body problem. The description of the main results obtained by H\'enon is given in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-02 Alexander B. Batkhin

Simulating the evolution of the gravitational N-body problem becomes extremely computationally expensive as N increases since the problem complexity scales quadratically with the number of bodies. We study the use of Artificial Neural…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Veronica Saz Ulibarrena , Philipp Horn , Simon Portegies Zwart , Elena Sellentin , Barry Koren , Maxwell X. Cai

We consider the planar three body problem of planetary type and we study the generation and continuation of periodic orbits and mainly of asymmetric periodic orbits. Asymmetric orbits exist in the restricted circular three body problem only…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-03 K. I. Antoniadou , G. Voyatzis , T. Kotoulas

The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of describing the non-trivial correlations encoded in the exponential complexity of the many-body wave function. Here we demonstrate that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-13 Giuseppe Carleo , Matthias Troyer

We revisit the three-body problem in the framework of general relativity. The Newtonian N-body problem admits choreographic solutions, where a solution is called choreographic if every massive particles move periodically in a single closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatsunori Imai , Takamasa Chiba , Hideki Asada

In this paper we carry out a quantitative analysis of the three-body systems and map them as a function of decaying time and intial conguration, look at this problem as an example of a simple deterministic system, and ask to what extent the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. J. Lehto , S. Kotiranta , M. J. Valtonen , P. Heinamaki , S. Mikkola , A. D. Chernin

Three-body and n-body problems in celestial mechanics are age-old and challenging puzzles. In recent years, several breakthroughs are made in finding periodic orbits for three-body problem. And Bohua Sun proposed a conjecture on Kepler's…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Chang-Yin Zhao , Ming-Jiang Zhang

The full three-body problem, on the motion of three celestial bodies under their mutual gravitational attraction, is one of the oldest unsolved problems in classical mechanics. The main difficulty comes from the presence of unstable and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Maciej J. Capinski , Marian Gidea

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

In this paper we define a small variation of the Taylor method and a formula for the global error of this new numerical method that allows us to keep track of the round-off error and does not require previous knowledge of the exact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Oscar Perdomo

This study presents a general alternative scheme of the procedure and necessary conditions for solving the $n$-body problem. The presented solution is not a solution of the classical problem, where the initial conditions of positions and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Pawel Wojda

General properties of the three-body problem in a model of modified dynamics are investigated. It is shown that the three-body problem in this model shares some characters with the similar problem in Newtonian dynamics. Moreover, the planar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Hossein Shenavar

Although the free-fall three-body problem have been investigated for more than one century, however, only four collisionless periodic orbits have been found. In this paper, we report 234 collisionless periodic orbits of the free-fall…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaoming Li , Shijun Liao

Applying the method of analytical continuation of periodic orbits, we study quasi-satellite motion in the framework of the three-body problem. In the simplest, yet not trivial model, namely the planar circular restricted problem, it is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-13 G. Voyatzis , K. I. Antoniadou

Using a variational method, we exhibit a surprisingly simple periodic orbit for the newtonian problem of three equal masses in the plane. The orbit has zero angular momentum and a very rich symmetry pattern. Its most surprising feature is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Alain Chenciner , Richard Montgomery

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

Despite the huge number of research into the three-body problem in physics and mathematics, the study of this problem still remains relevant both from the point of view of its broad application and taking into account its fundamental…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 A. S. Gevorkyan , A. V. Bogdanov , V. V. Mareev

Numerical N-body simulations are commonly used to explore stability regions around exoplanets, offering insights into the possible existence of satellites and ring systems. This study aims to utilize Machine Learning (ML) techniques to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro , Rafael Sfair , Giovana Ramon

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