An intrinsic approach in the curved n-body problem: the negative curvature case

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2012.01.002zbMATH Open1323.70071arXiv1109.2652OpenAlexW1994489158MaRDI QIDQ763754FDOQ763754

Ernesto Perez-Chavela, Florin Diacu, J. Guadalupe Reyes-Victoria

Publication date: 29 March 2012

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the motion of n point particles of positive masses that interact gravitationally on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic sphere, which has negative constant Gaussian curvature. Using the stereographic projection, we derive the equations of motion of this curved n-body problem in the Poincar'e disk, where we study the elliptic relative equilibria. Then we obtain the equations of motion in the Poincar'e upper half plane in order to analyze the hyperbolic and parabolic relative equilibria. Using techniques of Riemannian geometry, we characterize each of the above classes of periodic orbits. For n=2 and n=3 we recover some previously known results and find new qualitative results about relative equilibria that were not apparent in an extrinsic setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2652

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Three-body problems (70F07) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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