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September  2020, 12(3): 377-394. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2020011

## Symmetry reduction of the 3-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^4$

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia 2 Zentrum Mathematik, M8, TU München, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany

Dedicated to James Montaldi

Received  August 2019 Revised  October 2019 Published  March 2020

The 3-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^4$ has 24 dimensions and is invariant under translations and rotations. We do the full symplectic symmetry reduction and obtain a reduced Hamiltonian in local symplectic coordinates on a reduced phase space with 8 dimensions. The Hamiltonian depends on two parameters $\mu_1 > \mu_2 \ge 0$, related to the conserved angular momentum. The limit $\mu_2 \to 0$ corresponds to the 3-dimensional limit. We show that the reduced Hamiltonian has three relative equilibria that are local minima and hence Lyapunov stable when $\mu_2$ is sufficiently small. This proves the existence of balls of initial conditions of full dimension that do not contain any orbits that are unbounded.

Citation: Holger R. Dullin, Jürgen Scheurle. Symmetry reduction of the 3-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2020, 12 (3) : 377-394. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2020011
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Scaled energy-momentum diagram of the isosceles family of relative equilibria (or balanced configuration) in the 3-body problem in dimension 4 for two different mass ratios. These relative equilibria are minima of the Hamiltonian for sufficiently large negative scaled energy $h$, which occurs for small $b$ corresponding to small $\mu_2$
Parameter space $n = m_1/m > 0$ and shape parameter $t \in (0, 1)$ of the isosceles equilibrium. The curves divide the positive quadrant into 6 regions. The horizontal line $t = 2 - \sqrt{3}$ corresponds to the equilateral triangles. The parabola-shaped curve $P_1(n, t) = 0$ indicates a vanishing of the determinant of the $(q_2, q_3)$-block. The curve $P_2(n, t) = 0$ starting at the origin indicates a vanishing of the determinant of the $(q_2, q_3)$-block and an infinity in the determinant of the $(p_2, p_3)$-block. In the region adjacent to the $n$-axis all eigenvalues are positive and the isosceles solution is a minimum of the 3-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^4$
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