On the geometry and behavior of n-body motions

DOI10.1155/S016117120100669XMaRDI QIDQ1607796zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eldar Straume

Publication date 13 August 2002

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/50105, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmms/volume-28/S016117120100669X.html

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-body motions\(O(3)\)-equivariant geometryasymptotic behavior of collisionsgeodesic equationsgeometrization procedurekinematic Riemannian metricshape moduli spacesthree-dimensional congruence space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Review text

Summary: The kinematic separation of size, shape, and orientation of \(n\)-body systems is investigated together with specific issues concerning the dynamics of classical \(n\)-body motions. A central topic is the asymptotic behavior of general collisions, extending the early work of Siegel, Wintner, and more recently Saari. In particular, we give asymptotic formulas for the derivatives of any order of basic kinematic quantities. The kinematic Riemannian metric on the congruence and shape moduli spaces are introduced via \(O(3)\)-equivariant geometry. For \(n = 3\), a classical geometrization procedure is carried out explicitly for planar three-body motions, reducing them to solutions of a rather simple system of geodesic equations in three-dimensional congruence space. The paper is largely expository, and various known results on classical \(n\)-body motions are surveyed in our more geometrical setting.

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