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We study dynamical constraints arising from Embedded Contact Homology (ECH) in the spatial isosceles three-body problem. For energies below the critical level, the dynamics on the energy surface is identified with a Reeb flow on the tight…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Xijun Hu , Lei Liu , Yuwei Ou , Zhiwen Qiao , Pedro A. S. Salomão

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

Establishing the existence of periodic orbits is one of the crucial and most intricate topics in the study of dynamical systems, and over the years, many methods have been developed to this end. On the other hand, finding closed orbits in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Marian Mrozek , Roman Srzednicki , Justin Thorpe , Thomas Wanner

We study the dynamics and the phase-space structures of Coulombic and self-gravitating versions of the classical one-dimensional 3-body system with periodic boundary conditions. We demonstrate that such a 3-body system may be reduced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Pankaj Kumar , Bruce N. Miller

In this paper we propose an elementary topological approach which unifies and extends various different results concerning fixed points and periodic points for maps defined on sets homeomorphic to rectangles embedded in euclidean spaces. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marina Pireddu , Fabio Zanolin

We consider the dynamical behavior of Martin-L\"of random points in dynamical systems over metric spaces with a computable dynamics and a computable invariant measure. We use computable partitions to define a sort of effective symbolic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Stefano Galatolo , Mathieu Hoyrup , Cristobal Rojas

Comet-type periodic orbits of the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) are periodic solutions that are generated from very large retrograde and direct circular Keplerian motions around the common center of mass of the primaries.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Cengiz Aydin

We present a computer assisted proof or diffusion in the Planar Elliptic Restricted Three Body Problem. We treat the elliptic problem as a perturbation of the circular problem, where the perturbation parameter is the eccentricity of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Maciej J. Capiński , Natalia Wodka

We consider the Lorenz equations, a system of three dimensional ordinary differential equations modeling atmospheric convection. These equations are chaotic and hard to study even numerically, and so a simpler "geometric model" has been…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Tali Pinsky

We prove the existence of some types of periodic orbits for a particle moving in Euclidean three-space under the influence of the gravitational force induced by a fixed homogeneous circle. These types include periodic orbits very far and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Azevedo , P. Ontaneda

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

In this paper, we use variational minimizing method to prove the existence of hyperbolic solution with a prescribed positive energy for N-body type problems with strong forces. Firstly, we get periodic solutions using suitable constraints,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Donglun Wu , Shiqing Zhang

We set up a methodology for computer assisted proofs of the existence and the KAM stability of an arbitrary periodic orbit for Hamiltonian systems. We give two examples of application for systems with 2 and 3 degrees of freedom. The first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-05-18 Tomasz Kapela , Carles Simó

The main problem is to understand and to find periodic symmetric orbits in the $n$-body problem, in the sense of finding methods to prove or compute their existence, and more importantly to describe their qualitative and quantitative…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-05-20 D. L. Ferrario

Space missions have discovered a large number of exoplanets evolving in (or close to) mean-motion resonances (MMRs) and resonant chains. Often, the published data exhibit very high uncertainties due to the observational limitations that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

Errors in numerical simulations of gravitating systems can be magnified exponentially over short periods of time. Numerical shadowing provides a way of demonstrating that the dynamics represented by numerical simulations are representative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. J. Urminsky

The case of the planar circular restricted three-body problem is used as a test field in order to determine the character of the orbits of a small body which moves under the gravitational influence of the two heavy primary bodies. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

In the restricted three-body problem, consecutive collision orbits are those orbits which start and end at collisions with one of the primaries. Interests for such orbits arise not only from mathematics but also from various engineering…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Urs Frauenfelder , Lei Zhao

The dynamics of symbolic systems, such as multidimensional subshifts of finite type or cellular automata, are known to be closely related to computability theory. In particular, the appropriate tools to describe and classify topological…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Silvere Gangloff , Alonso Herrera , Cristobal Rojas , Mathieu Sablik

In this paper, we consider a time-periodically forced Kepler problem in any dimensions, with an external force which we only assume to be regular in a neighborhood of the attractive center. We prove that there exist infinitely many periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Lei Zhao