Minimal collision arcs asymptotic to central configurations

Vivina Barutello; Gian Marco Canneori; Susanna Terracini

doi:10.3934/dcds.2020218

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2021, Volume 41, Issue 1: 61-86. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020218

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Minimal collision arcs asymptotic to central configurations

Dipartimento di Matematica "Giuseppe Peano", Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy

Received: January 2020

Revised: March 2020

Early access: May 2020

Published: January 2021

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We are concerned with the analysis of finite time collision trajectories for a class of singular anisotropic homogeneous potentials of degree $ -\alpha $, with $ \alpha\in(0,2) $ and their lower order perturbations. It is well known that, under reasonable generic assumptions, the asymptotic normalized configuration converges to a central configuration. Using McGehee coordinates, the flow can be extended to the collision manifold having central configurations as stationary points, endowed with their stable and unstable manifolds. We focus on the case when the asymptotic central configuration is a global minimizer of the potential on the sphere: our main goal is to show that, in a rather general setting, the local stable manifold coincides with that of the initial data of minimal collision arcs. This characterisation may be extremely useful in building complex trajectories with a broken geodesic method. The proof takes advantage of the generalised Sundman's monotonicity formula.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 70F16, 70G75; Secondary: 70F10, 70F15, 37C70.

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