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

DOI10.1007/S12346-021-00532-3MaRDI QIDQ2052903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemCoulomb potentialperiodic solutionsrelative equilibria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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