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Hauptverfasser: Ou, Yuwei, Portaluri, Alessandro
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Ou, Yuwei
Portaluri, Alessandro
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Portaluri, Alessandro
contents In the gravitation n-body Problem, a homothetic orbit is a special solution of the Newton's Equations of motion, in which each body moves along a straight line through the center of mass and forming at any time a central configuration. In 2020, Portaluri et al. proved that under a spectral gap condition on the limiting central configuration, known in literature as non-spiraling or [BS]-condition, the Morse index of an asymptotic colliding motion is finite. Later Ou et al. proved this result for other classes of unbounded motions, e.g. doubly asymptotic motions (e.g. doubly homothetic motions). In this paper we prove that for a homothetic motion, irrespective of how large the index of the limiting central configuration and how large the energy level is, the following alternative holds: if the non-spiraling condition holds then the Morse index is 0 otherwise it is infinite.
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spellingShingle Morse Index for Homothetic motions in the gravitational n-body problem
Ou, Yuwei
Portaluri, Alessandro
Dynamical Systems
Mathematical Physics
70F16, 70F10, 53D12
In the gravitation n-body Problem, a homothetic orbit is a special solution of the Newton's Equations of motion, in which each body moves along a straight line through the center of mass and forming at any time a central configuration. In 2020, Portaluri et al. proved that under a spectral gap condition on the limiting central configuration, known in literature as non-spiraling or [BS]-condition, the Morse index of an asymptotic colliding motion is finite. Later Ou et al. proved this result for other classes of unbounded motions, e.g. doubly asymptotic motions (e.g. doubly homothetic motions). In this paper we prove that for a homothetic motion, irrespective of how large the index of the limiting central configuration and how large the energy level is, the following alternative holds: if the non-spiraling condition holds then the Morse index is 0 otherwise it is infinite.
title Morse Index for Homothetic motions in the gravitational n-body problem
topic Dynamical Systems
Mathematical Physics
70F16, 70F10, 53D12
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04374