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2009 Free-fall and heteroclinic orbits to triple collisions in the isosceles three-body problem
Mitsuru Shibayama
J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 49(4): 735-746 (2009). DOI: 10.1215/kjm/1265899480
Abstract

We consider the spatial isosceles three-body problem where two masses are equal and the other may be different. We discuss free-fall orbits in the planar case and show that there exists a countable family of orbits converging to triple collisions forward and backward in time. In Devaney's coordinates, the orbits correspond to topologically transverse heteroclinic orbits between equilibria on the collision manifold in the blown-up equations (Theorem 1.1). By the "window theory" of Moeckel [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 15 (1984), 857-876], we see that there exists an orbit shadowing a prescribed path on the graph consisting of these new heteroclinic orbits and already known, heteroclinic and periodic orbits. In particular, choosing appropriate infinite paths, we obtain a variety of new oscillatory orbits.

Shibayama: Free-fall and heteroclinic orbits to triple collisions in the isosceles three-body problem
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Mitsuru Shibayama "Free-fall and heteroclinic orbits to triple collisions in the isosceles three-body problem," Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University 49(4), 735-746, (2009). https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1265899480
Published: 2009
Vol.49 • No. 4 • 2009
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