Study on Chaotic Behavior of the Restricted Four-Body Problem with an Equilateral Triangle Configuration

DOI10.1142/S0218127417500262zbMath1362.70015OpenAlexW2600077269MaRDI QIDQ5738123

Xuhua Cheng, Zhikun She

Publication date: 31 May 2017

Published in: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218127417500262

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic behaviorMelnikov methodSmale horseshoetransversal homoclinic orbitsthe restricted four-body problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General perturbation schemes for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K60) Transition to stochasticity (chaotic behavior) for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K55) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) (n)-body problems (70F10) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44)

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