Spatial relative equilibria and periodic solutions of the Coulomb (n+1)-body problem

DOI10.1007/S12346-021-00532-3zbMATH Open1493.70056arXiv2107.05118OpenAlexW3210501485MaRDI QIDQ2052903FDOQ2052903

Authors: Kevin Constantineau, Jean-Philippe Lessard, C. García-Azpeitia 

Publication date: 29 November 2021

Published in: Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a classical model for the atom that considers the movement of $n$ charged particles of charge $-1$ (electrons) interacting with a fixed nucleus of charge $mu>0$. We show that two global branches of spatial relative equilibria bifurcate from the $n$-polygonal relative equilibrium for each critical values $mu=s_k$ for $kinlbrack2,\mathrm{...},n/2]$. In these solutions, the $n$ charges form $n/h$-groups of regular $h$-polygons in space, where $h$ is the greatest common divisor of $k$ and $n$. Furthermore, each spatial relative equilibrium has a global branch of relative periodic solutions for each normal frequency satisfying some nonresonant condition. We obtain computer-assisted proofs of the existence of several spatial relative equilibria on global branches away from the $n$-polygonal relative equilibrium. Moreover, the nonresonant condition of the normal frequencies for some spatial relative equilibria is verified rigorously using computer-assisted proofs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05118

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zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemperiodic solutionsrelative equilibriaCoulomb potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) General methods in interval analysis (65G40) (n)-body problems (70F10) Degree theory for nonlinear operators (47H11) Dynamical aspects of symmetries, equivariant bifurcation theory (37G40)

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