The restricted three-body problem and holomorphic curves
Lecture 3 Urs FRAUENFELDER
Course Description
The restricted three-body problem describes the dynamics of a massless particle attracted by two masses. For example the massless particle could be the moon and the masses earth and sun, or a satellite attracted by the earth and moon, or a planet attracted by two stars in a double star system. Different from the two-body problem which is completely integrable the dynamics of the restricted three-body problem has chaotic behaviour.
A global surface of section reduces the complexity of the dynamics by one dimension. More than hundred years ago Birkhoff made a conjecture about the existence of a global surface of section for the restricted three-body problem. Although the question about existence of a global surface of section is a question about all orbits, holomorphic curves allow to reduce the Birkhoff conjecture to questions involving periodic orbits only.
In the lecture I explain the theory of holomorphic finite energy planes, what they imply for the Birkhoff conjecture, and what challenges remain to be done to prove the conjecture.
Details
- Year/Term
- 2018 / Intensive, First semester
- Date
- September 3rd to September 7th, 2018
- Faculty/
Graduate School - Graduate School of Science
- Language
- English
- Instructor name
- Urs FRAUENFELDER(Professor, Augsburg University)
- Place
- Room 127, Graduate School of Science Bldg No 3
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