How many Keplerian arcs are there between two points of spacetime?

DOI10.1007/S10569-023-10126-7MaRDI QIDQ6155753zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alain Albouy, Antonio J. Ureña

Publication date 7 June 2023

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06013

zbMATH Keywords

convex functionLambert problemvariational differential equationflight timeLevi-Civita timeMaupertuis actionmultirevolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75)

Abstract: We consider the Keplerian arcs around a fixed Newtonian center joining two prescribed distinct positions in a prescribed flight time. We prove that, putting aside the "opposition case" where infinitely many planes of motion are possible, there are at most two such arcs of each "type". There is a bilinear quantity that we call b which is in all the cases a good parameter for the Keplerian arcs joining two distinct positions. The flight time satisfies a "variational" differential equation in b, and is a convex function of b.

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