The Kepler Problem with Anisotropic Perturbations

Abstract

We study a 2-body problem given by the sum of the Newtonian potential and an anisotropic perturbation that is a homogeneous function of degree $-\beta$, $\beta \ge 2$. For $\beta >2$, the sets of initial conditions leading to collisions/ejections and the one leading to escapes/captures have positive measure. For $\beta >2$ and $\beta \ne 3$, the flow on the zero-energy manifold is chaotic. For $\beta =2$, a case we prove integrable, the infinity manifold of the zero-energy level is a disconnected set, which has heteroclinic connections with the collision manifold.

References in corpus (1)

• Saari's Conjecture for the Collinear $n$-Body Problem

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• On the singularities of generalized solutions to $n$--body type problems