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The regular or chaotic character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional plane (R,z) of an axially symmetric elliptical galaxy with a dense, massive spherical nucleus and a dark matter halo component is under investigation. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Efthimia G. Doni

In this study, a new expansion of planetary disturbing function is developed for describing the resonant dynamics of minor bodies with arbitrary inclinations and semimajor axis ratios. In practice, the disturbing function is expanded around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Hanlun Lei

We study the time evolution of perturbations in spatially extended chaotic systems in the presence of quenched disorder. We find that initially random perturbations tend to exponentially localize in space around static pinning centers that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan G. Szendro , Juan M. Lopez , Miguel A. Rodriguez

A discrete and exact algorithm for obtaining planetary systems is derived in a recent article (Eur. Phys. J. Plus 2022, 137:99). Here the algorithm is used to obtain planetary systems with forces different from the Newtonian inverse square…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Søren Toxvaerd

Symplectic integrator plays a pivotal role in the long-term tracking of charged particles within accelerators. To get symplectic maps in accurate simulation of single-particle trajectories, two key components are addressed: precise…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Jie Li , Kedong Wang , Kai Wang , Xu Zhang , Xueqing Yan , Kun Zhu

As originally formulated, the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI) method of chaos detection has so far been applied to distinguish quasiperiodic from chaotic motion in conservative nonlinear dynamical systems. In this paper we extend its…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-17 T. Manos , Ch. Skokos , Ch. Antonopoulos

We present a formalism for constructing schematic diagrams to depict chaotic three-body interactions in Newtonian gravity. This is done by decomposing each interaction in to a series of discrete transformations in energy- and angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Nathan W. C. Leigh , Shalma Wegsman

Context. Due to our increasing knowledge on the Galactic and stellar neighborhood of the Solar System, modern long-period comet motion studies have to take into account both stellar perturbations and the overall Galactic potential. Aims.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Piotr A. Dybczyński , Sławomir Breiter

We present a new approach to the problem of proving global stability, based on symplectic geometry and with a focus on systems with several conserved quantities. We also provide a proof of instability for integrable systems whose momentum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Verónica Errasti Díez , Jordi Gaset Rifà , Manuel Lainz

Atmospheric flows exhibit long-range spatiotemporal correlations manifested as the fractal geometry to the global cloud cover pattern concomitant with inverse power-law form for power spectra of temporal fluctuations of all scales ranging…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Selvam , S. Fadnavis

In this work, we present a symplectic integration scheme to numerically compute space debris motion. Such an integrator is particularly suitable to obtain reliable trajectories of objects lying on high orbits, especially geostationary ones.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ch. Hubaux , A. Lemaître , N. Delsate , T. Carletti

We study the nature of motion in a logarithmic galactic dynamical model, with an additional external perturbation. Two different cases are investigated. In the first case the external perturbation is fixed, while in the second case it is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-03 Euaggelos E. Zotos

This article considers non-relativistic charged particle dynamics in both static and non-static electromagnetic fields, which are governed by nonseparable, possibly time-dependent Hamiltonians. For the first time, explicit symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Molei Tao

The dynamic equation of mass point in rotating coordinates is governed by Coriolis and centrifugal force, besides a corotating potential relative to frame. Such a system is no longer a canonical Hamiltonian system so that the construction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Xiongbiao Tu , Qiao Wang , Yifa Tang

Recently a new class of numerical integration methods -- ``mixed variable symplectic integrators'' -- has been introduced for studying long-term evolution in the conservative gravitational few-body problem. These integrators are an order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Renu Malhotra

We present a new three-parameter family of self-consistent equilibrium models for quasi-relaxed stellar systems that are subject to the combined action of external tides and rigid internal rotation. These models provide an idealised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Lucy A. Z. Arditi , Anna Lisa Varri

It is shown analytically that the energy-conserving implicit nonsymplectic scheme of Bacchini, Ripperda, Chen and Sironi provides a first-order accuracy to numerical solutions of a six-dimensional conservative Hamiltonian system. Because of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Shiyang Hu , Xin Wu , Enwei Liang

It has previously been shown that varying the numerical timestep during a symplectic orbital integration leads to a random walk in energy and angular momentum, destroying the phase space-conserving property of symplectic integrators. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan A. Kaib , Thomas Quinn , Ramon Brasser

We present a global approach of non-dissipative physics. Based on symplectic mechanics this technique allows us to obtain the solution of a very large class of problems in terms of a Taylor expand. We apply this method to the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Perez , M. Lachieze-Rey

A fractal method to detect, locate and quantify chaos in multi-dimensional-conservative-closed systems, based on the creation of artificial exits, is presented. The method is invariant under space-time changes of coordinates and can be used…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Motter , P. S. Letelier
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