Lyapunov vs. Geometrical stability analysis of the Kepler and the restricted three body problems

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.04.016MaRDI QIDQ434081zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Yahalom, J. Levitan, M. Lewkowicz, L. Horwitz

Publication date 9 July 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1124

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Characteristic and Lyapunov exponents of ordinary differential equations (34D08) Stability problems in rigid body dynamics (70E50) Three-body problems (70F07) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: In this letter we show that although the application of standard Lyapunov analysis predicts that completely integrable Kepler motion is unstable, the geometrical analysis of Horwitz et al [1] predicts the observed stability. This seems to us to provide evidence for both the incompleteness of the standard Lyapunov analysis and the strength of the geometrical analysis. Moreover, we apply this approach to the three body problem in which the third body is restricted to move on a circle of large radius which induces an adiabatic time dependent potential on the second body. This causes the second body to move in a very interesting and intricate but periodic trajectory; however, the standard Lyapunov analysis, as well as methods based on the parametric variation of curvature associated with the Jacobi metric, incorrectly predict chaotic behavior. The geometric approach predicts the correct stable motion in this case as well.

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