A brief account of G. D. Birkhoff's problem in the problem of three bodies

DOI10.1007/BF01876746MaRDI QIDQ1085643zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chinchu Tung

Publication date 1980

Published in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876746

zbMATH Keywords

G. D. Birkhoff's seventh problemNewtonian attractionreduced differential equationstopological structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03) Three-body problems (70F07)

Review text

The present article gives a historical survey of G. D. Birkhoff's seventh problem which is an inquiry about the topological structure of the set of definition of the reduced differential equations of motion. Recent advances in the problem and their meaning have been briefly indicated.

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