On the minimality of Keplerian arcs with fixed negative energy

DOI10.1007/S12346-020-00362-9MaRDI QIDQ2301852zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vivina Barutello, Alberto Boscaggin, Walter Dambrosio

Publication date 25 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06681

zbMATH Keywords

celestial mechanicsconjugate pointsKepler problemMorse indexvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Two-body problems (70F05) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: We revisit a classical result by Jacobi on the local minimality, as critical points of the corresponding energy functional, of fixed-energy solutions of the Kepler equation joining two distinct points with the same distance from the origin. Our proof relies on the Morse index theorem, together with a characterization of the conjugate points as points of geodesic bifurcation.

Review text

Jacobi in 1837 identified the two extremities of a chord passing through the second focus of a Keplerian ellipse to two conjugate points, the ellipse being considered as a geodesic of the Jacobi-Maupertuis metric. This work presents this property in a symmetric case, and describes the geodesic bifurcation associated to this conjugacy. The cited preprint 18 by \textit{R. Montgomery}, ``Minimizers for the Kepler problem, which also develops the same property, is published in the same issue of the journal [Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 19, No. 1, Paper No. 31, 12 p. (2020; Zbl 1462.70006)].

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