A continuum of periodic solutions to the planar four-body problem with two pairs of equal masses |
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Authors: | Tiancheng Ouyang Zhifu Xie |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;2. Department of Mathematics, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we apply the variational method with Structural Prescribed Boundary Conditions (SPBC) to prove the existence of periodic and quasi-periodic solutions for the planar four-body problem with two pairs of equal masses and . A path on satisfies the SPBC if the boundaries and , where A and B are two structural configuration spaces in and they depend on a rotation angle and the mass ratio .We show that there is a region such that there exists at least one local minimizer of the Lagrangian action functional on the path space satisfying the SPBC for any . The corresponding minimizing path of the minimizer can be extended to a non-homographic periodic solution if θ is commensurable with π or a quasi-periodic solution if θ is not commensurable with π. In the variational method with the SPBC, we only impose constraints on the boundary and we do not impose any symmetry constraint on solutions. Instead, we prove that our solutions that are extended from the initial minimizing paths possess certain symmetries.The periodic solutions can be further classified as simple choreographic solutions, double choreographic solutions and non-choreographic solutions. Among the many stable simple choreographic orbits, the most extraordinary one is the stable star pentagon choreographic solution when . Remarkably the unequal-mass variants of the stable star pentagon are just as stable as the equal mass choreographies. |
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Keywords: | 37N05 70F10 70F15 37N30 70H05 70F17 Variational method Choreographic periodic solutions Structural Prescribed Boundary Conditions (SPBC) Stability Central configurations Corresponding author. |
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