Chaotic instability in three-body problem (Q1082097)

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Chaotic instability in three-body problem
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    Chaotic instability in three-body problem (English)
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    The well known result that a geodesic flow on a two dimensional compact manifold of negative Gaussian curvature is globally exponentially unstable is generalized and applied to the plane three body problem. It is shown that such an exponential instability and hence chaotic behavior exists for the three body problem but not for the two body problem.
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    exponential instability
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    geodesic flow
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    two dimensional compact manifold of negative Gaussian curvature
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    plane three body problem
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    chaotic behavior
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