The Number of Relative Equilibria in the PCR4BP

Jordi Lluís Figueras, Warwick Tucker, Piotr Zgliczynski

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a new, analytical, method for computing the exact number of relative equilibria in the planar, circular, restricted 4-body problem of celestial mechanics. The new approach allows for a very efficient computer-aided proof, and opens a potential pathway to proving harder instances of the n-body problem.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2827–2877
Number of pages51
JournalJournal of Dynamics and Differential Equations
Volume36
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • n-body problem
  • Relative equilibrium
  • Set-valued computation

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