Contact Geometry of the Restricted Three-Body Problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$

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Main Authors: Yilmaz, Kursat, Arsie, Alessandro
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author Yilmaz, Kursat
Arsie, Alessandro
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Arsie, Alessandro
contents We study the contact geometry of the connected components of the energy hypersurface, in the symmetric restricted 3-body problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$, for a specific type of motion of the primaries. In particular, we show that these components are of contact type for all energies below the first critical value and slightly above it. We prove that these components, suitably compactified using a Moser-type regularization are contactomorphic to $R\mathbb{P}^3$ with its unique tight contact structure or to the connected sum of two copies of it, depending on the value of the energy. We exploit Taubes' solution of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three, to infer the existence of periodic orbits in all these cases.
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spellingShingle Contact Geometry of the Restricted Three-Body Problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$
Yilmaz, Kursat
Arsie, Alessandro
Dynamical Systems
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
We study the contact geometry of the connected components of the energy hypersurface, in the symmetric restricted 3-body problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$, for a specific type of motion of the primaries. In particular, we show that these components are of contact type for all energies below the first critical value and slightly above it. We prove that these components, suitably compactified using a Moser-type regularization are contactomorphic to $R\mathbb{P}^3$ with its unique tight contact structure or to the connected sum of two copies of it, depending on the value of the energy. We exploit Taubes' solution of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three, to infer the existence of periodic orbits in all these cases.
title Contact Geometry of the Restricted Three-Body Problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$
topic Dynamical Systems
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10885