Chaos in the one-dimensional gravitational three-body problem

DOI10.1063/1.165984MaRDI QIDQ4526273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jarmo Hietarinta, Seppo Mikkola

Publication date 16 January 2001

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9304001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Three-body problems (70F07) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50)

Abstract: We have investigated the appearance of chaos in the 1-dimensional Newtonian gravitational three-body system (three masses on a line with $-1/r$ pairwise potential). We have concentrated in particular on how the behavior changes when the relative masses of the three bodies change (with negative total energy). For two mass choices we have calculated 18000 full orbits (with initial states on a $100imes180$ lattice on the Poincar'e section) and obtained dwell time distributions. For 105 mass choices we have calculated Poincar'e maps for $10imes18$ starting points. Our results show that the Poincar'e section (and hence the phase space) divides into three well defined regions with orbits of different characteristics: 1) There is a region of fast scattering, with a minimum of pairwise collisions and smooth dependence on initial values. 2) In the chaotic scattering region the interaction times are longer, and both the interaction time and the final state depend sensitively on the starting point on the Poincar'e section. For both 1) and 2) the initial and final states consists of a binary + single particle. 3) The third region consists of quasiperiodic orbits where the three masses are bound together forever. At the center of the quasiperiodic region there is the periodic Schubart orbit, whose stability turns out to correlate strongly with the global behavior.

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