Periodic three-body orbits with vanishing angular momentum in the Jacobi-Poincaré 'strong' potential

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA8BDEMaRDI QIDQ4596134zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Dmitrašinović, Luka V. Petrović, Milovan Šuvakov

Publication date 30 November 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03687

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear dynamicsperiodic orbitsstrong potentialthree-body problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Three-body problems (70F07)

Abstract: Moore and Montgomery have argued that planar periodic orbits of three bodies moving in the Jacobi-Poincare, or the "strong" pairwise potential $su{m}_{i>j}frac-1r_{ij}^2$, can have all possible topologies. Here we search systematically for such orbits with vanishing angular momentum and find 24 topologically distinct orbits, 22 of which are new, in a small section of the allowed phase space, with a tendency to overcrowd, due to overlapping initial conditions. The topologies of these 24 orbits belong to three algebraic sequences defined as functions of integer $n=0,1,2,ldots$. Each sequence extends to $noinfty$, but the separation of initial conditions for orbits with $ngeq10$ becomes practically impossible with a numerical precision of 16 decimal places. Nevertheless, even with a precision of 16 decimals, it is clear that in each sequence both the orbit's initial angle $ph{i}_n$ and its period $T_n$ approach finite values in the asymptotic limit ($noinfty$). Two of three sequences are overlapping in the sense that their initial angles $phi$ occupy the same segment on the circle and their asymptotic values $ph{i}_{infty}$ are (very) close to each other. The actions of these orbits rise linearly with the index $n$ that describes the orbit's topology, which is in agreement with the Newtonian case. We show that this behaviour is consistent with the assumption of analyticity of the action as a function of period.

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