Studies of Melnikov method and transversal homoclinic orbits in the circular planar restricted three-body problem

DOI10.1007/BF02498706zbMath0954.70012MaRDI QIDQ1367436

Cheng Xiang, Ruzeng Zhu

Publication date: 11 February 2001

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Poincaré sectionenergy surfaceextended Melnikov methodMcGehee transformationcircular planar restricted three-body problemdegenerate fixed point small mass ratioglobal phase diagramnear-integrable Hamiltonian systemtangle phenomenontransversal homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-body problems (70F07) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44) Nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems, KAM theory (70H08)

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