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April  2017, 37(4): 1903-1922. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017080

An existence proof of a symmetric periodic orbit in the octahedral six-body problem

Anete S. Cavalcanti ,

Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Matemática, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n, Recife, PE 52171-900, Brasil

Received  May 2016 Revised  November 2016 Published  December 2016

Fund Project: The first author is supported by CAPES grants.

We present a proof of the existence of a periodic orbit for the Newtonian six-body problem with equal masses. This orbit has three double collisions each period and no multiple collisions. Our proof is based on the minimization of the lagrangian action functional on a well chosen class of symmetric loops.

Keywords: Celestial mechanics, octahedral six body problem, periodic solutions, symmetric orbits.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:70F15, 70F16;Secondary:37J50.
Citation: Anete S. Cavalcanti. An existence proof of a symmetric periodic orbit in the octahedral six-body problem. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (4) : 1903-1922. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017080
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H. Brezis, Analyse Fonctionnelle, Théorie et Applications, Masson, Paris, 1983.  Google Scholar

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K. -C. Chen, Variational Methods and Periodic Solutions of Newtonian N-Body Problems Ph. D thesis, University of Minnesota, 2001.  Google Scholar

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M. Degiovanni, F. Gianonni and A. Marino, Periodic solutions of dynamical systems with newtonian type potentials, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci., 15 (1988), 467-494.   Google Scholar

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L. C. Young, Lectures on the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory W. B. Saunders Company, 1969.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  A sketch of the first sixth of the orbit
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