セミナー「3体問題の周期解」大阪大学 吹田キャンパス
(2013年5月21日)14:00 lecture room, 4th floor, RCNP (Suita campus)
Abstract: The three-body problem dates back to the 1680s. Isaac Newton had already shown that his law of gravity could always predict the orbit of two bodies held together by gravity-suchasastaranda planet-With complete accuracy. The periodic orbit is always an ellipse (sometimes turning into a circle). However, Newton couldn't come up with a similar solution for the case of three bodies orbiting one another. For two centuries, scientists tried differenttacks until the German mathematician Heinrich Bruns pointed out that the search for a general solution for the three-body problem was futile, and that only specific solutions -"oneoffs" that work under particular conditions -were possible. Only three families of collision less periodic orbits were known until recently: 1) the Lagrange-Euler (1772); 2) the Broucke-Henon (1975); and 3) Cris Moore's (1993) periodic motion of three bodies along a "figure-8" trajectory. We report the discovery of 13 new families of periodic orbits, bringing the new total to 16. We discuss the methods used to find them and distinguish them from others, as well as the next steps in this line of research (e.g. to see how many of the new solutions are stable and will stay on track if perturbed a little: lf some of the solutions are stable, then they might even be glimpsed in real life.).
Contact Person: Atsushi Hosaka