The Eight-Body Cubic Collision-Based Periodic Orbit

Publication date 12 October 2021

Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) (n)-body problems (70F10) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16)

Abstract: We construct a highly-symmetric periodic orbit of eight bodies in three dimensions. In this orbit, each body collides with its three nearest neighbors in a regular periodic fashion. Regularization of the collisions in the orbit is achieved by an extension of the Levi-Civita method. Initial conditions for the orbit are found numerically. Linear stability of the orbit is then shown using a technique by Roberts. Evidence toward higher-order stability is presented as an additional result of a numerical calculation.

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