English

Pseudo-holomorphic dynamics in the three-body problem: fillability and convexity

Symplectic Geometry 2023-11-13 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this article, we extend the methods from arXiv:2011.06568, where the five dimensional analogue of the three dimensional finite energy foliations introduced by Hofer--Wysocki--Zehnder was identified, to the case where there the underlying (IP) contact 55-fold admits a 66-dimensional (IP) symplectic filling. We show that the filling induces a moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic curves which is itself a symplectic filling of the standard 33-sphere, and hence symplectomorphic to the 44-dimensional ball. We further show that whenever the contact form on the 55-fold is strictly convex, then this moduli space is a strictly convex domain, so that the induced Reeb dynamics at the boundary is in particular dynamically convex. For the circular restricted three-body problem, this implies that whenever the spatial dynamics (near one of the heavy masses) is strictly convex, the holomorphic shadow of arXiv:2011.06568 is dynamically convex; this is shown to hold for near-integrable cases close to the Kepler problem, and with mass ratio either zero or sufficiently close to 1.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.06174,
  title  = {Pseudo-holomorphic dynamics in the three-body problem: fillability and convexity},
  author = {Agustin Moreno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06174},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:17:30.253Z