Chazy-type asymptotics and hyperbolic scattering for the n-body problem

DOI10.1007/S00205-020-01542-2zbMATH Open1464.70007arXiv1910.05871OpenAlexW2979810150MaRDI QIDQ776895FDOQ776895

Authors: Nathan Duignan, Richard Moeckel, Richard Montgomery, Guowei Yu 

Publication date: 13 July 2020

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

Abstract: We study solutions of the Newtonian $n$-body problem which tend to infinity hyperbolically, that is, all mutual distances tend to infinity with nonzero speed as $tightarrow+infty$ or as $tightarrow-infty$. In suitable coordinates, such solutions form the stable or unstable manifolds of normally hyperbolic equilibrium points in a boundary manifold "at infinity". We show that the flow near these manifolds can be analytically linearized and use this to give a new proof of Chazy's classical asymptotic formulas. We also address the scattering problem, namely, for solutions which are hyperbolic in both forward and backward time, how are the limiting equilibrium points related? After proving some basic theorems about this scattering relation, we use perturbations of our manifold at infinity to study scattering "near infinity", that is, when the bodies stay far apart and interact only weakly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05871

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering problem\(n\)-body problemhyperbolic motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Three-body problems (70F07)

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