An invariant region for the collisional dynamics of two bodies on Keplerian orbits

DOI10.1007/S40574-016-0069-XMaRDI QIDQ2396781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dario Benedetto, Flavia Lenti

Publication date 24 May 2017

Published in Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0347

zbMATH Keywords

planetary systemselastic collisionsinelastic collisionsplanetary rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: We study the dynamics of two bodies moving on elliptic Keplerian orbits around a fixed center of attraction and interacting only by means of elastic or inelastic collisions. We show that there exists a bounded invariant region: for suitable values of the total energy and the total angular momentum (explicitly computable) the orbits of the bodies remain elliptic, whatever are the number and the details of the collisions. We show that there exists a bounded invariant region even in the case of two bodies interacting by short range potential.

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