Morse index and linear stability of the Lagrangian circular orbit in a three-body-type problem via index theory

DOI10.1007/S00205-015-0898-2zbMATH Open1395.70016arXiv1406.3519OpenAlexW3102833354MaRDI QIDQ5962864FDOQ5962864

Alessandro Portaluri, Vivina Barutello, Riccardo D. Jadanza

Publication date: 25 February 2016

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that the linear stability of the Lagrangian elliptic solutions in the classical planar three-body problem depends on a mass parameter $$ and on the eccentricity $e$ of the orbit. We consider only the circular case ($e=0$) but under the action of a broader family of singular potentials: $alpha$-homogeneous potentials, for $alphain(0,2)$, and the logarithmic one. It turns out indeed that the Lagrangian circular orbit persists also in this more general setting. We discover a region of linear stability expressed in terms of the homogeneity parameter $alpha$ and the mass parameter $$, then we compute the Morse index of this orbit and of its iterates and we find that the boundary of the stability region is the envelope of a family of curves on which the Morse indices of the iterates jump. In order to conduct our analysis we rely on a Maslov-type index theory devised and developed by Y.~Long, X.~Hu and S.~Sun; a key role is played by an appropriate index theorem and by some precise computations of suitable Maslov-type indices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3519

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Three-body problems (70F07)

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