Improbability of collisions in \(n\)-body systems (Q2326453)

``The authors show in this paper that, for a wide class of two-body interactions, including standard examples like gravitational or Coulomb fields, the collision orbits in n-body systems are of Liouville measure zero, for all energies.'' ``They use techniques from symplectic geometry to relate the volume of the set of initial points, whose orbits are passing through the surfaces (hypersurfaces surrounding the collision set) to the area of Poincare surfaces surrounding the collision area.''