Existence of prograde double-double orbits in the equal-mass four-body problem

DOI10.1515/ANS-2018-0009MaRDI QIDQ1632070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wentian Kuang, Duokui Yan

Publication date 12 December 2018

Published in Advanced Nonlinear Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09960

zbMATH Keywords

four-body problemgeometric methodtopological constraintvariational method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-body problems (70F07) (n)-body problems (70F10) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16)

Abstract: By introducing simple topological constraints and applying a binary decomposition method, we show the existence of a set of prograde double-double orbits for any rotation angle $hetain(0,pi/7]$ in the equal-mass four-body problem. A new geometric argument is introduced to show that for any $hetain(0,pi/2)$, the action of the minimizer corresponding to the prograde double-double orbit is strictly greater than the action of the minimizer corresponding to the retrograde double-double orbit. This geometric argument can also be applied to study orbits in the planar three-body problem, such as the retrograde orbits, the prograde orbits, the Schubart orbit and the H'{e}non orbit.

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