Currently,the fifteen new periodic orbits of Newtonian three-body problem with equal mass were found by Suvakov and Dmitra sinovi[Phys Rev Lett,2013,110:114301]using the gradient descent method with double precision.I...Currently,the fifteen new periodic orbits of Newtonian three-body problem with equal mass were found by Suvakov and Dmitra sinovi[Phys Rev Lett,2013,110:114301]using the gradient descent method with double precision.In this paper,these reported orbits are checked stringently by means of a reliable numerical approach(namely the"Clean Numerical Simulation",CNS),which is based on the arbitrary-order Taylor series method and data in arbitrary-digit precision with a procedure of solution verification.It is found that seven among these fifteen orbits greatly depart from the periodic ones within a long enough interval of time,and are thus most possibly unstable at least.It is suggested to carefully check whether or not these seven unstable orbits are the so-called"computational periodicity"mentioned by Lorenz in 2006.This work also illustrates the validity and great potential of the CNS for chaotic dynamic systems.展开更多
The famous three-body problem can be traced back to Isaac Newton in the 1680 s. In the 300 years since this "three-body problem"was first recognized, only three families of periodic solutions had been found,...The famous three-body problem can be traced back to Isaac Newton in the 1680 s. In the 300 years since this "three-body problem"was first recognized, only three families of periodic solutions had been found, until 2013 when ˇSuvakov and Dmitraˇsinovi′c [Phys.Rev. Lett. 110, 114301(2013)] made a breakthrough to numerically find 13 new distinct periodic orbits, which belong to 11 new families of Newtonian planar three-body problem with equal mass and zero angular momentum. In this paper, we numerically obtain 695 families of Newtonian periodic planar collisionless orbits of three-body system with equal mass and zero angular momentum in case of initial conditions with isosceles collinear configuration, including the well-known figure-eight family found by Moore in 1993, the 11 families found by ˇSuvakov and Dmitraˇsinovi′c in 2013, and more than 600 new families that have never been reported, to the best of our knowledge. With the definition of the average period T = T=Lf, where Lf is the length of the so-called "free group element", these 695 families suggest that there should exist the quasi Kepler's third law T* ≈ 2:433 ± 0:075 for the considered case, where T*= T|E|^(3/2) is the scale-invariant average period and E is its total kinetic and potential energy,respectively. The movies of these 695 periodic orbits in the real space and the corresponding close curves on the "shape sphere"can be found via the website: http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11272209)the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR),King Abdulaziz University (KAU) (Grant No.37-130-35-HiCi)
文摘Currently,the fifteen new periodic orbits of Newtonian three-body problem with equal mass were found by Suvakov and Dmitra sinovi[Phys Rev Lett,2013,110:114301]using the gradient descent method with double precision.In this paper,these reported orbits are checked stringently by means of a reliable numerical approach(namely the"Clean Numerical Simulation",CNS),which is based on the arbitrary-order Taylor series method and data in arbitrary-digit precision with a procedure of solution verification.It is found that seven among these fifteen orbits greatly depart from the periodic ones within a long enough interval of time,and are thus most possibly unstable at least.It is suggested to carefully check whether or not these seven unstable orbits are the so-called"computational periodicity"mentioned by Lorenz in 2006.This work also illustrates the validity and great potential of the CNS for chaotic dynamic systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11432009)
文摘The famous three-body problem can be traced back to Isaac Newton in the 1680 s. In the 300 years since this "three-body problem"was first recognized, only three families of periodic solutions had been found, until 2013 when ˇSuvakov and Dmitraˇsinovi′c [Phys.Rev. Lett. 110, 114301(2013)] made a breakthrough to numerically find 13 new distinct periodic orbits, which belong to 11 new families of Newtonian planar three-body problem with equal mass and zero angular momentum. In this paper, we numerically obtain 695 families of Newtonian periodic planar collisionless orbits of three-body system with equal mass and zero angular momentum in case of initial conditions with isosceles collinear configuration, including the well-known figure-eight family found by Moore in 1993, the 11 families found by ˇSuvakov and Dmitraˇsinovi′c in 2013, and more than 600 new families that have never been reported, to the best of our knowledge. With the definition of the average period T = T=Lf, where Lf is the length of the so-called "free group element", these 695 families suggest that there should exist the quasi Kepler's third law T* ≈ 2:433 ± 0:075 for the considered case, where T*= T|E|^(3/2) is the scale-invariant average period and E is its total kinetic and potential energy,respectively. The movies of these 695 periodic orbits in the real space and the corresponding close curves on the "shape sphere"can be found via the website: http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm.
