Natural dynamical reduction of the three-body problem

DOI10.1007/S10569-023-10144-5zbMATH Open1523.70015arXiv2107.12372OpenAlexW3186845261MaRDI QIDQ6155765FDOQ6155765

Authors: Barak Kol 

Publication date: 7 June 2023

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

Abstract: The three-body problem is a fundamental long-standing open problem, with applications in all branches of physics, including astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics. In general, conserved quantities allow to reduce the formulation of a mechanical problem to fewer degrees of freedom, a process known as dynamical reduction. However, extant reductions are either non-general, or hide the problem's symmetry or include unexplained definitions. This paper presents a dynamical reduction that avoids these issues, and hence is general and natural. Any three-body configuration defines a triangle, and its orientation in space. Accordingly, we decompose the dynamical variables into the geometry (shape + size) and orientation of the triangle. The geometry variables are shown to describe the motion of an abstract point in a curved 3d space, subject to a potential-derived force and a magnetic-like force with a monopole charge. The orientation variables are shown to obey a dynamics analogous to the Euler equations for a rotating rigid body, only here the moments of inertia depend on the geometry variables, rather than being constant. The reduction rests on a novel symmetric solution to the center of mass constraint inspired by Lagrange's solution to the cubic. The formulation of the orientation variables is novel and rests on a little known generalization of the Euler-Lagrange equations to non-coordinate velocities. Applications to global features, to the statistical solution and to special exact solutions are presented. A generalization to the four-body problem is presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12372

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zbMATH Keywords

four-body problemrotating rigid bodyorientation variablesdynamical variablesgeneralized Euler-Lagrange equationseconomized simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Three-body problems (70F07) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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