Relative equilibria of four identical satellites

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0115zbMATH Open1186.70015arXiv0902.3215OpenAlexW3102726320MaRDI QIDQ3561978FDOQ3561978

Alain Albouy, Yan-Ning Fu

Publication date: 19 May 2010

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Newtonian 5-body problem in the plane, where 4 bodies have the same mass m, which is small compared to the mass M of the remaining body. We consider the (normalized) relative equilibria in this system, and follow them to the limit when m/M -> 0. In some cases two small bodies will coalesce at the limit. We call the other equilibria the relative equilibria of four separate identical satellites. We prove rigorously that there are only three such equilibria, all already known after the numerical researches in [SaY]. Our main contribution is to prove that any equilibrium configuration possesses a symmetry, a statement indicated in [CLO2] as the missing key to proving that there is no other equilibrium.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3215

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zbMATH Keywords

central configurationsco-orbital satellitessymmetrical configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Cites Work

• Symmetry of planar four-body convex central configurations

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• Symmetry and Asymmetry in the $1+N$ Coorbital Problem
• On the symmetric central configurations for the planar \(1+5\)-body problem with small arbitrary masses
• On the central configurations of the planar 1 + 3 body problem
• On the symmetric central configurations for the planar \(1+4\)-body problem
• Symmetry, bifurcation and stacking of the central configurations of the planar \(1+4\) body problem
• On the symmetric central configurations of three coorbital satellites
• Linear stability of the \(n\)-gon relative equilibria of the \((1+n)\)-body problem
• Bifurcations of relative equilibria in the 4- and 5-body problem
• The co-circular central configurations of the 5-body problem

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