A global regularization for the \((N+1)\)-body problem with the primaries in a regular \(N\)-gon central configuration (Q904869): Difference between revisions

The authors present a simultaneous regularization of all binary collisions between an infinitesimal mass body and \(N\geq 3\) primaries rotating in a plane with fixed angular velocity where the initial configuration is a regular \(N\)-gon and central. When \(N\geq 4\) the primaries to be central have by necessity equal mass. In a rotating coordinate system a Birkhoff type transformation is proved to exist that provides the desired simultaneous regularizations. The authors apply this regularization to the \((3+1)\)-body problem with unequal mass primaries, and to the \((4+1)\)-body problem with equal mass primaries forming a regular \(4\)-gon.