The geometric phase of the three-body problem

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/9/5/014zbMATH Open0928.70022arXivdg-ga/9510005OpenAlexW2038146743MaRDI QIDQ4382014FDOQ4382014

Richard Montgomery

Publication date: 17 January 2000

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose that the initial triangle formed by the three moving masses of the three-body problem is similar to the triangle formed at some later time. We derive a simple integral formula for the overall rotation relating the two triangles. The formula is based on the fact that the space of similarity classes of triangles forms a two-sphere which we call the shape sphere. The formula consists of a ``dynamic and ``geometric term. The geometric term is the integral of a universal two-form on a``reduced configuration space. This space is a two-sphere bundle over the shape sphere. The fibering spheres are instantaneous versions of the angular momentum sphere appearing in rigid body motion. Our derivation of the formula is similar in spirit to our earlier reconstruction formula for the rigid body motion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9510005

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Three-body problems (70F07)

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