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Discrete and differential homotopy in circular restricted three-body control
The planar circular restricted three-body problem is considered.
The control enters linearly in the equation of motion to model the thrust of
the third body. The minimum time optimal control problem has two scalar
parameters: The ratio of the primaries masses which embeds the two-body
problem into the three-body one, and the upper bound on the control norm.
Regular extremals of the maximum principle are computed by shooting thanks
to continuations with respect to both parameters. Discrete and dierential
homotopy are compared in connection with second order sucient conditions
in optimal control. Homotopy with respect to control bound gives evidence of
various topological structures of extremals.