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A computer-assisted proof of Saari's conjecture for the planar three-body problem |
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| Authors: | Richard Moeckel |
| Affiliation: | School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 |
| Abstract: | The five relative equilibria of the three-body problem give rise to solutions where the bodies rotate rigidly around their center of mass. For these solutions, the moment of inertia of the bodies with respect to the center of mass is clearly constant. Saari conjectured that these rigid motions are the only solutions with constant moment of inertia. This result will be proved here for the planar problem with three nonzero masses with the help of some computational algebra and geometry. |
| Keywords: | Celestial mechanics three-body problem computational algebra |
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