Analytic intermediate dimensional elliptic tori for the planetary many-body problem (Q477120)

The spatial planetary many-body problem is the study of the motion of \(n+1\) bodies in three-dimensions interacting under the mutual attraction of Newtonian gravitation, wherein \(n\) planets move around a massive central body. Quasi-periodic trajectories for this problem have long been of interest. A major tool for their study comes from the results of Kolmogorov, Arnold and Moser (KAM) on nearly integrable systems. More recent work due to Féjoz established smooth Lagrangian tori of maximal dimension \(3n-1\) for the spatial planetary multibody problem. Chierchia and Pinzari proved that there are real analytic \(n\)-dimensional elliptic invariant tori. The author of this paper investigates the existence of real analytic elliptic invariant tori of dimensions intermediate between \(n\) and \(3n-1\). The main result is the following: In the spatial planetary many body problem with \(n\geq 2\), there is a large family of real analytic elliptic invariant tori that carry quasi-periodic solutions for \(1\leq m\leq 2n-2\). Similar results hold for the planar planetary problem. Because of the degeneracies inherent here, the standard KAM results do not apply, and the generalized KAM theorem of Berti et al. is employed in the proof.