Linear stability of the Lagrangian triangle solutions for quasihomogeneous potentials

DOI10.1007/S10569-005-2288-9MaRDI QIDQ817661zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuele Santoprete

Publication date 17 March 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4907

zbMATH Keywords

central configurationslinear stabilitythree body problemhomogeneous potentialsquasihomogeneous potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-body problems (70F07) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Stability problems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H14)

Abstract: In this paper we study the linear stability of the relative equilibria for homogeneous and quasihomogeneous potentials. Firstly, in the case the potential is a homogeneous function of degree $-a$, we find that any relative equilibrium of the $n$-body problem with $a>2$ is spectrally unstable. We also find a similar condition in the quasihomogeneous case. Then we consider the case of three bodies and we study the stability of the equilateral triangle relative equilibria. In the case of homogeneous potentials we recover the classical result obtained by Routh in a simpler way. In the case of quasihomogeneous potentials we find a generalization of Routh inequality and we show that, for certain values of the masses, the stability of the relative equilibria depends on the size of the configuration.

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