Topological approach to the generalized n-centre problem

DOI10.1070/RM9779MaRDI QIDQ4596557zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. V. Bolotin, Valery V. Kozlov

Publication date 1 December 2017

Published in Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04671

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic invariant setcollision-free trajectorycoveringdegree of singular pointFinsler metricHamiltonian systemintegrabilityJacobi metricLevi-Civita regularizationmetric spacesingular point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) (n)-body problems (70F10) Topological and differential topological methods for problems in mechanics (70G40)

Abstract: We consider a natural Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom and Hamiltonian $H=|p{|}^2/2+V(q)$. The configuration space $M$ is a closed surface (for noncompact $M$ certain conditions at infinity are required). It is well known that if the potential energy $V$ has $n>2chi(M)$ Newtonian singularities, then the system is not integrable and has positive topological entropy on energy levels $H=h>supV$. We generalize this result to the case when the potential energy has several singular points $a_j$ of type $V(q)sim-d(q,a_j{)}^{-alph{a}_j}$. Let $A_k=2-2k^{-1}$, $k=2,3,dots$, and let $n_k$ be the number of singular points with $A_{k}lealph{a}_j<A_{k+1}$. We prove that if ${\displaystyle }$ sum_{2le kleinfty}n_kA_k>2chi(M), ${\displaystyle }$ then the system has a compact chaotic invariant set of noncollision trajectories on any energy level $H=h>supV$. This result is purely topological: no analytical properties of the potential, except the presence of singularities, are involved. The proofs are based on the generalized Levi-Civita regularization and elementary topology of coverings. As an example, the plane $n$ center problem is considered.

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