Exact general solutions to extraordinary N –body problems

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1999.0321MaRDI QIDQ4259309zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald Lynden-Bell, R. M. Lynden-Bell

Publication date 13 April 2000

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808173

zbMATH Keywords

continually breathing systemsinverse cubic repulsionpulsating equilibriastatistical equilibriumstatistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10)

Abstract: We solve the N-body problems in which the total potential energy is any function of the mass-weighted root-mean-square radius of the system of N point masses. The fundamental breathing mode of such systems vibrates non-linearly for ever. If the potential is supplemented by any function that scales as the inverse square of the radius there is still no damping of the fundamental breathing mode. For such systems a remarkable new statistical equilibrium is found for the other coordinates and momenta, which persists even as the radius changes continually.

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