Syzygies in the two center problem

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/29/4/1212MaRDI QIDQ2805233zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. R. Dullin, Richard Montgomery

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05220

zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemsperiodic orbitsnon-collision orbitssymbolic dynamics: three-body problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Three-body problems (70F07)

Abstract: We give a complete symbolic dynamics description of the dynamics of Euler's problem of two fixed centers. By analogy with the 3-body problem we use the collinearities (or syzygies) of the three bodies as symbols. We show that motion without collision on regular tori of the regularised integrable system are given by so called Sturmian sequences. Sturmian sequences were introduced by Morse and Hedlund in 1940. Our main theorem is that the periodic Sturmian sequences are in one to one correspondence with the periodic orbits of the two center problem. Similarly, finite Sturmian sequences correspond to collision-collision orbits.

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