Periodic solutions of the N-body problem / / Kenneth R. Meyer

• Autore: Meyer Kenneth R (Kenneth Ray), <1937->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1999]; ©1999
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1999.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 154 p.)
• Disciplina: 514.74
• Soggetto topico: Hamiltonian systems; Many-body problem - Numerical solutions
• Classificazione: 58F05
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Equations of celestial mechanics -- Hamiltonian systems -- Central configurations -- Symmetries, integrals, and reduction -- Theory of periodic solutions -- Satellite orbits -- The restricted problem -- Lunar orbits -- Comet orbits -- Hill’s lunar equations -- The elliptic problem.
• Sommario/riassunto: The N-body problem is the classical prototype of a Hamiltonian system with a large symmetry group and many first integrals. These lecture notes are an introduction to the theory of periodic solutions of such Hamiltonian systems. From a generic point of view the N-body problem is highly degenerate. It is invariant under the symmetry group of Euclidean motions and admits linear momentum, angular momentum and energy as integrals. Therefore, the integrals and symmetries must be confronted head on, which leads to the definition of the reduced space where all the known integrals and symmetries have been eliminated. It is on the reduced space that one can hope for a nonsingular Jacobian without imposing extra symmetries. These lecture notes are intended for graduate students and researchers in mathematics or celestial mechanics with some knowledge of the theory of ODE or dynamical system theory. The first six chapters develops the theory of Hamiltonian systems, symplectic transformations and coordinates, periodic solutions and their multipliers, symplectic scaling, the reduced space etc. The remaining six chapters contain theorems which establish the existence of periodic solutions of the N-body problem on the reduced space.
• Titolo autorizzato: Periodic solutions of the N-body problem
• ISBN: 3-540-48073-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466653103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 1719.