Nondegeneracy and integral count of frozen planet orbits in helium

DOI10.2140/TUNIS.2023.5.713MaRDI QIDQ6084971zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors K. Cieliebak, Urs Frauenfelder, E. Volkov

Publication date 2 December 2023

Published in Tunisian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12634

zbMATH Keywords

helium atomMorse indicesfrozen planet orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Small divisors, rotation domains and linearization in holomorphic dynamics (37F50) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) Atomic physics (81V45) Fredholm structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B15)

Abstract: We study a family of action functionals whose critical points interpolate between frozen planet orbits for the helium atom with mean interaction between the electrons and the free fall. The rather surprising first result of this paper asserts that for the whole family, critical points are always nondegenerate. This implies that the frozen planet orbit with mean interaction is nondegenerate and gives a new proof of its uniqueness. As an application, we show that the integral count of frozen planet orbits with instantaneous interaction equals one. For this, we prove orientability of the determinant line bundle over the space of selfadjoint Fredholm operators with spectrum bounded from below, and use it to define an integer valued Euler characteristic for Fredholm sections whose linearization belongs to this class.

Recommendations

• A variational approach to frozen planet orbits in helium
• A compactness theorem for Frozen planets
• Shooting for collinear periodic orbits in the Helium model
• Non-integrability proof of the frozen planetary atom configuration
• Nonintegrability of the three-body problems for the classical helium atom

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3209538 (Why is no real title available?)
• A compactness theorem for Frozen planets
• A variational approach to frozen planet orbits in helium
• Equivariant moduli problems, branched manifolds, and the Euler class
• Helium and Hamiltonian delay equations
• On the homotopy classification of proper Fredholm maps into a Hilbert space
• Regularized variational principles for the perturbed Kepler problem
• The regularized free fall. I: Index computations

Cited in

(3)

• A compactness theorem for Frozen planets
• A variational approach to frozen planet orbits in helium
• Shooting for collinear periodic orbits in the Helium model

This page was built for publication: Nondegeneracy and integral count of frozen planet orbits in helium

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6084971)