Symmetry groups of the planar three-body problem and action-minimizing trajectories

DOI10.1007/S00205-008-0131-7zbMATH Open1155.70009arXivmath/0404514OpenAlexW2039146063MaRDI QIDQ1000548FDOQ1000548

Authors: Vivina Barutello, Davide L. Ferrario, Susanna Terracini 

Publication date: 9 February 2009

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider periodic and quasi-periodic solutions of the three-body problem with homogeneous potential from the point of view of the equivariant calculus of variations. First, we show that symmetry groups of the Lagrangian action functional can be reduced to groups in a finite explicitly given list, after a suitable change of coordinates. Then, we show that local symmetric minimizers are always collisionless, without any assumption on the group other than the fact that collisions are not forced by the group itself. Moreover, we describe some properties of the resulting symmetric collisionless minimizers (Lagrange, Euler, Hill-type orbits and Chenciner--Montgomery figure-eight).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404514

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zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian action functionalsymmetric collisionless minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-body problems (70F07) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65)

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