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A bifurcation in the family of periodic orbits for the spatial isosceles 3 body problem. (English) Zbl 1433.70020

Summary: In this paper we describe a 1-dimensional family of initial conditions \(\Sigma \) that provides reduced periodic solutions of the spatial isosceles 3-body problem. This family \(\Sigma \) contains a bifurcation point that make it look like the union of two embedded smooth curves. We will explain how the trajectories of the bodies in the solutions coming from one of the embedded curves have two symmetries while those coming from the other embedded curve only have one symmetry. We give an explanation for the existence of this bifurcation point.

MSC:

70F07 Three-body problems
70F10 \(n\)-body problems
70H12 Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics
37C27 Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows
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