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We are interested in stable periodic orbits for spacecrafts in the gravitational field of minor celestial bodies. The stable periodic orbits around minor celestial bodies are useful not only for the mission design of the deep space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-29 Yu Jiang , Juergen Schmidt , Hengnian Li , Xiaodong Liu , Yue Yang

We study bifurcations of area-preserving maps, both orientable (symplectic) and non-orientable, with quadratic homoclinic tangencies. We consider one and two parameter general unfoldings and establish results related to the appearance of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Amadeu Delshams , Marina Gonchenko , Sergey Gonchenko

We use a semi-numerical method to find the position and period of periodic orbits in a bisymmetrical potential, made up of a two dimensional harmonic oscillator, with an additional term of a Plummer potential, in a number of resonant cases.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

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 a class of maps having the Collatz function (famously related to the Collatz Conjecture) as an example, under the topological and ergodic perspectives, including an approach with thermodynamic formalism. By introducing a key…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Eduardo Santana

When placed in parallel magnetic and electric fields, the electron trajectories of a classical hydrogen atom are chaotic. The classical escape rate of such a system can be computed with classical trajectory Monte Carlo techniques, but these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Ethan T. Custodio , Sulimon Sattari , Kevin A. Mitchell

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

Periodic orbits (equivalence classes of closed paths up to cyclic shifts) play an important role in applications of graph theory. For example, they appear in the definition of the Ihara zeta function and exact trace formulae for the spectra…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Isaac Echols , Jon Harrison , Tori Hudgins

We present a systematic methodology to determine and locate analytically isolated periodic points of discrete and continuous dynamical systems with algebraic nature. We apply this method to a wide range of examples, including a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Armengol Gasull , Víctor Mañosa

We investigate the iterative behaviour of continuous order preserving subhomogeneous maps that map a polyhedral cone into itself. For these maps we show that every bounded orbit converges to a periodic orbit and, moreover, that there exists…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Bas Lemmens , Roger Nussbaum

We present an illustrative application of the two famous mathematical theorems in differential topology in order to show the existence of periodic orbits with arbitrary given period for a class of hamiltonians .This result point out for a…

General Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Luiz C L Botelho

The chapter presents mathematical models intended for creating a topological drawing of a non-separable non-planar graph based on the methods of G. Ringel's vertex rotation theory. The induced system of cycles generates a topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

We prove that for a large and important class of $C^1$ twist maps of the torus periodic and quasi-periodic orbits of a new type exist, provided that there are no rotational invariant circles (R.I.C's). These orbits have a non-zero…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-07 S Addas Zanata

By varying a parameter of a one-dimensional piecewise smooth map, stable periodic orbits are observed. In this paper, complete analytic characterization of these stable periodic orbits is obtained. An interesting relationship between the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-02-10 Bhooshan Rajpathak , Harish K. Pillai , Santanu Bandopadhyay

Starting from a semiclassical quantization condition based on the trace formula, we derive a periodic-orbit formula for the distribution of spacings of eigenvalues with k intermediate levels. Numerical tests verify the validity of this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Keppeler

We reconsider the classical problem of the continuation of degenerate periodic orbits in Hamiltonian systems. In particular we focus on periodic orbits that arise from the breaking of a completely resonant maximal torus. We here propose a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Tiziano Penati , Marco Sansottera , Veronica Danesi

We consider a signal composed of several periods of a periodic function, of which we observe a noisy reparametrisation. The phase estimation problem consists of finding that reparametrisation, and, in particular, the number of observed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Thomas Bonis , Frédéric Chazal , Bertrand Michel , Wojciech Reise

We consider some smooth maps on a bouquet of circles. For these maps we can compute the number of fixed points, the existence of periodic points and an exact formula for topological entropy. We use Lefschetz fixed point theory and actions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jaume Llibre , Michael Todd

Analytic methods to investigate periodic orbits in galactic potentials. To evaluate the quality of the approximation of periodic orbits in the logarithmic potential constructed using perturbation theory based on Hamiltonian normal forms.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Giuseppe Pucacco , Dino Boccaletti , Cinzia Belmonte

The numerical optimized shooting method for finding periodic orbits in nonlinear dynamical systems was employed to determine the existence of periodic orbits in the well-known R\"ossler system. By optimizing the period $T$ and the three…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-15 A. E. Botha , W. Dednam