On the motion of a three-body system on hypersurface of proper energy

Abstract

Based on the fact that for hamiltonian system there exists equivalence between phase trajectories and geodesic trajectories on the Riemannian manifold, the classical three-body problem is formulated in the framework of six ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of the second order on the energy hypersurface of body system. It is shown that in the case when the total interaction potential of the body system depends on the relative distances between particles, the three of six geodesic equations describing rotations of formed by three bodies triangle are solved exactly. Using this fact, it is shown that the three-body problem can be described in the limits of three nonlinear ODEs of canonical form, which in phase space is equivalent to the autonomous sixth-order system. The equations of geodesic deviations on the manifold Open image in new window (the space of relative distances between particles) are derived in an explicit form. A system of algebraic equations for finding the homographic solutions of restricted three-body problem is obtained. The initial and asymptotic conditions for solution of the classical scattering problem are found.