How the method of minimization of action avoids singularities

DOI10.1023/A:1020128408706MaRDI QIDQ1871122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Marchal

Publication date 6 May 2003

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1020128408706

zbMATH Keywords

Pontryagin maximum principlecollisionsLambert theoremoptimal Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) (n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16)

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