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The equations of motion of massive particles in GR are completely determined by the field equation. We utilize the particular form of Einstein's field equation and propose for the $N$-body problem of the equations that are Lorentz invariant…

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The three-body general problem is formulated as a problem of geodesic trajectories flows on the Riemannian manifold. It is proved that a curved space with local coordinate system allows to detect new hidden symmetries of the internal motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 A. S. Gevorkyan

On large-scales, comparable to the horizon, the observable clustering properties of galaxies are affected by various general relativistic effects. To calculate these effects one needs to consistently solve for the metric, densities and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-21 Nora Elisa Chisari , Matias Zaldarriaga

We review what has been learned recently using N-body simulations about the evolution of globular clusters. While simulations of star clusters have become more realistic, and now include the evolution of single and binary stars, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas C. Heggie

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

We present a pair-wise force law in a system of N particles that produces analytic solutions for arbitrary number of particles, masses, and initial conditions. Each pair of particles interacts via a force that is proportional to the product…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Joseph West , Sean P. Bartz

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

Using an effective one body approach we describe in detail gravitational waves from classical three body problem on a non-rotating straight line and derive their basic physical characteristics. Special attention is paid to the irregular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-16 Plamen P Fiziev

We study the problem of minimal resistance for a body moving with constant velocity in a rarefied medium of chaotically moving point particles, in Euclidean space R^d. The particles distribution over velocities is radially symmetric. Under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Plakhov , Delfim F. M. Torres

The Kepler's third law is a relation between the period and the energy of two classical particles interacting via a gravitational potential. Recent works showed that this law could be extended, at least approximately, to classical…

General Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 C. Semay , C. T. Willemyns

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

We study the influence of relativity on the chaotic properties and dynamical outcomes of an unstable triple system; the Pythagorean three-body problem. To this end, we extend the Brutus N-body code to include Post-Newtonian pairwise terms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Tjarda C. N. Boekholt , Arend Moerman , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

This is an essay sketching the line of thinking which has led the present author to propose the constituent or atomic model of gravitation more than a decade ago. It turns out that viewing the problem of gravitation as a quantum many body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 Pawel O. Mazur

As shown by Johannes Kepler in 1609, in the two-body problem, the shape of the orbit, a given ellipse, and a given non-vanishing constant angular momentum determines the motion of the planet completely. Even in the three-body problem, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Hiroshi Ozaki , Hiroshi Fukuda , Toshiaki Fujiwara

We develop the canonical formalism for a system of $N$ bodies in lineal gravity and obtain exact solutions to the equations of motion for N=2. The determining equation of the Hamiltonian is derived in the form of a transcendental equation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. B. Mann , D. Robbins , T. Ohta

The classical dynamics of particles with (non-)abelian charges and spin moving on curved manifolds is established in the Poisson-Hamilton framework. Equations of motion are derived for the minimal quadratic Hamiltonian and some extensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Jan W. van Holten

The equations of motion of $N$ gravitationally bound bodies are derived from the field equations of Projective Unified Field Theory. The Newtonian and the post-Newtonian approximations of the field equations and of the equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-18 Alexander Gorbatsievich , Ernst Schmutzer

Within the solar system, approximate realizations of the three-body problem occur when a comet approaches a planet while being affected mainly by such a planet and the Sun, and this configuration was investigated by Tisserand within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-10 Emmanuele Battista , Giampiero Esposito , Angelo Tartaglia

Within the context of Newton's theory of gravitation, restricted to point-like test particles and central bodies, stable circular orbits in ordinary space are related to stable circular paths on a massless, unmovable, undeformable…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 R. Caimmi

Consider the dynamics of two point masses on a surface of constant curvature subject to an attractive force analogue of Newton's inverse square law. When the distance between the bodies is sufficiently small, the reduced equations of motion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Connor Jackman