Keplerian orbits through the Conley-Zehnder index

DOI10.1007/S12346-020-00430-0zbMATH Open1498.70011arXiv1908.00075OpenAlexW3120576316MaRDI QIDQ2222385FDOQ2222385

Authors: Henry Kavle, Alessandro Portaluri, Daniel C. Offin 

Publication date: 27 January 2021

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

Abstract: It was discovered by Gordon in 1977 that Keplerian ellipses in the plane are minimizers of the Lagrangian action and spectrally stable as periodic points of the associated Hamiltonian flow. The aim of this paper is to give a homotopy theoretical proof of these results through a self-contained, explicit and simple computation of the Conley-Zehnder index. The techniques developed in this paper can be used to investigate the higher dimensional case of Keplerian ellipses, where the classical variational proof no longer applies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00075

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zbMATH Keywords

Conley-Zehnder indextwo-body problemlinear and spectral stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Two-body problems (70F05) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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