Post-Newtonian effects on Lagrange's equilateral triangular solution for the three-body problem
Abstract
Continuing work initiated in earlier publications [Yamada, Asada, Phys. Rev. D 82, 104019 (2010), 83, 024040 (2011)], we investigate the post-Newtonian effects on Lagrange's equilateral triangular solution for the three-body problem. For three finite masses, it is found that the equilateral triangular configuration satisfies the post-Newtonian equation of motion in general relativity, if and only if all three masses are equal. When a test mass is included, the equilateral configuration is possible for two cases: (1) one mass is finite and the other two are zero, or (2) two of the masses are finite and equal, and the third one is zero, namely a symmetric binary with a test mass. The angular velocity of the post-Newtonian equilateral triangular configuration is always smaller than the Newtonian one, provided that the masses and the side length are the same.
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@article{arxiv.1011.3886,
title = {Post-Newtonian effects on Lagrange's equilateral triangular solution for the three-body problem},
author = {Takumi Ichita and Kei Yamada and Hideki Asada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3886},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
10 pages, 1 figure; including test mass; accepted by PRD