Bifurcation of periodic orbits for the N-body problem, from a nongeometrical family of solutions

DOI10.1007/S10569-022-10062-YMaRDI QIDQ2138479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrés Rivera, Johann Suárez, Oscar M. Perdomo

Publication date 12 May 2022

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06070

zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemanalytic continuation methodbifurcationsperiodic orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Bifurcations of singular points in dynamical systems (37G10) (n)-body problems (70F10)

Abstract: Given two positive real numbers $M$ and $m$ and an integer $n>2$, it is well known that we can find a family of solutions of the $(n+1)$-body problem where the body with mass $M$ stays put at the origin and the other $n$ bodies, all with the same mass $m$, move on the $x$-$y$ plane following ellipses with eccentri-city $e$. It is expected that this geometrical family that depends on $e$, has some bifurcations that produce solutions where the body in the center moves on the $z$-axis instead of staying put in the origin. By doing an analytic continuation of a periodic numerical solution of the $4$-body problem --the one displayed on the video http://youtu.be/2Wpv6vpOxXk --we surprisingly discovered that the origin of this periodic solution is not part of the geometrical family of elliptical solutions parametrized by the eccentricity $e$. It comes from a not so geometrical but easier to describe family. Having noticed this new family, the authors find an exact formula for the bifurcation point in this new family and use it to show the existence of a non-planar periodic solution for any pair of masses $M$, $m$, and any integer $n$. As a particular example, we find a solution where three bodies with mass $3$ move around a body with mass $7$ that moves up and down.

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