Global regularization for the n-center problem on a manifold

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2002.8.873MaRDI QIDQ1848981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. V. Bolotin, P. Negrini

Publication date 27 April 2003

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2002.8.873

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowsLagrangian systemtopological entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Obstructions to integrability for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (nonintegrability criteria) (37J30) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) (n)-body problems (70F10) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16)

Review text

It is known that the \(n\)-center problem in a convected 3-dimensional smooth manifold \(Q\) is the Lagrangian system \[ {d\over dt} \dot q=-\text{grad} W(q), \tag{1} \] on \(T(Q\setminus P)\) with the Lagrangian \[ L(q, \dot q)=\frac 12\|\dot q\|^2_g -V(q), \tag{2} \] where \(P=\{p_1, \dots, p_n\}\) is a finite set in \(Q\), \(g\) is a fix \(C^4\) Riemannian metric on \(Q\), and \(W\) is a \(C^3\) function in a neighborhood \(U_i\) of \(p_i\), \[ W(q)=-{b_i(q)\over \text{dist} (q,p_i)}+ c_i(q), \tag{3} \] with \(b_i\), \(c_i\in C^3(U_i)\) and \(b_i (p_i) >0\). The distance is measured in terms of the Riemannian metric. Here the authors describe a global version of the KS regularization of the \(n\)-center problem on \(Q\). As an application, they show that the \(n\)-center problem in \(S^3\) has positive topological entropy for \(n\geq 5\) and energy greater than the maximum of the potential energy. To this end the authors use the results of Gromov and Paternian on the topological entropy of geodesic flows.

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