Polygonal homographic orbits of the curved n-body problem

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05558-3MaRDI QIDQ5390260zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florin Diacu

Publication date 27 April 2012

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2490

zbMATH Keywords

existencetriangular relative equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) (n)-body problems (70F10) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12)

Abstract: In the $2$-dimensional $n$-body problem, $nge3$, in spaces of constant curvature, $kappae0$, we study polygonal homographic solutions. We first provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of these orbits and then consider the case of regular polygons. We further use this criterion to show that, for any $nge3$, the regular $n$-gon is a polygonal homographic orbit if and only if all masses are equal. Then we prove the existence of relative equilibria of non-equal masses on the sphere of curvature $kappa>0$ for $n=3$ in the case of scalene triangles. Such triangular relative equilibria occur only along fixed geodesics and are generated from fixed points of the sphere. Finally, through a classification of the isosceles case, we prove that not any three masses can form a triangular relative equilibrium.

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