Saari's conjecture is true for generic vector fields

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04330-9zbMATH Open1112.70009arXivmath/0510012OpenAlexW2155397437WikidataQ123154513 ScholiaQ123154513MaRDI QIDQ3443138FDOQ3443138

Authors: Tanya Schmah, Cristina Stoica 

Publication date: 31 May 2007

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The simplest non-collision solutions of the N-body problem are the "relative equilibria", in which each body follows a circular orbit around the centre of mass and the shape formed by the N bodies is constant. It is easy to see that the moment of inertia of such a solution is constant. In 1970, D. Saari conjectured that the converse is also true for the planar Newtonian N-body problem: relative equilibria are the only constant-inertia solutions. A computer-assisted proof for the 3-body case was recently given by R. Moeckel. We present a different kind of answer: proofs that several generalisations of Saari's conjecture are generically true. Our main tool is jet transversality, including a new version suitable for the study of generic potential functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510012

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zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemjet transversality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05)

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