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The Integral Manifolds of the Three Body Problem
 
Christopher K. McCord University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Kenneth R. Meyer University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Quidong Wang University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Integral Manifolds of the Three Body Problem
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-0217-4
Product Code:  MEMO/132/628.E
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The Integral Manifolds of the Three Body Problem
Christopher K. McCord University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Kenneth R. Meyer University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Quidong Wang University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-0217-4
Product Code:  MEMO/132/628.E
List Price: $49.00
MAA Member Price: $44.10
AMS Member Price: $29.40
  • Book Details
     
     
    Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
    Volume: 1321998; 91 pp
    MSC: Primary 70; 58; 57

    The phase space of the spatial three-body problem is an open subset in \({\mathbb R}^{18}\). Holding the ten classical integrals of energy, center of mass, linear and angular momentum fixed defines an eight dimensional submanifold. For fixed nonzero angular momentum, the topology of this manifold depends only on the energy. This volume computes the homology of this manifold for all energy values. This table of homology shows that for negative energy, the integral manifolds undergo seven bifurcations. Four of these are the well-known bifurcations due to central configurations, and three are due to “critical points at infinity”. This disproves Birkhoff's conjecture that the bifurcations occur only at central configurations.

    Readership

    Graduate students and research mathematicians and physicists working in celestial mechanics.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The decomposition of the spaces
    • 3. The cohomology
    • 4. The analysis of $\mathfrak {K}(c, h)$ for equal masses
    • 5. The analysis of $\mathfrak {K}(c, h)$ for general masses
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Volume: 1321998; 91 pp
MSC: Primary 70; 58; 57

The phase space of the spatial three-body problem is an open subset in \({\mathbb R}^{18}\). Holding the ten classical integrals of energy, center of mass, linear and angular momentum fixed defines an eight dimensional submanifold. For fixed nonzero angular momentum, the topology of this manifold depends only on the energy. This volume computes the homology of this manifold for all energy values. This table of homology shows that for negative energy, the integral manifolds undergo seven bifurcations. Four of these are the well-known bifurcations due to central configurations, and three are due to “critical points at infinity”. This disproves Birkhoff's conjecture that the bifurcations occur only at central configurations.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians and physicists working in celestial mechanics.

  • Chapters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The decomposition of the spaces
  • 3. The cohomology
  • 4. The analysis of $\mathfrak {K}(c, h)$ for equal masses
  • 5. The analysis of $\mathfrak {K}(c, h)$ for general masses
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