Symmetry reduction of the 3-body problem in R^4

DOI10.3934/JGM.2020011zbMATH Open1477.37093arXiv1908.04496OpenAlexW3009199095MaRDI QIDQ2220262FDOQ2220262

Authors: H. R. Dullin, Jürgen Scheurle 

Publication date: 22 January 2021

Published in: Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The 3-body problem in $mathbb{R}^4$ has 24 dimensions and is invariant under translations and rotations. We do the full symplectic symmetry reduction and obtain a reduced Hamiltonian in local symplectic coordinates on a reduced phase space with 8 dimensions. The Hamiltonian depends on two parameters $m{u}_1>m{u}_{2}ge0$, related to the conserved angular momentum. The limit $m{u}_{2}o0$ corresponds to the 3-dimensional limit. We show that the reduced Hamiltonian has relative equilibria that are local minima and hence Lyapunov stable when $m{u}_2$ is sufficiently small. This proves the existence of balls of initial conditions of full dimension that do not contain any orbits that are unbounded.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04496

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zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov stability3-body problemrelative equilibriumsymplectic symmetry reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Three-body problems (70F07) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15) Fixed points and periodic points of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J12)

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