Herman's global instability conjecture for the N-body problem
Herman's global instability conjecture for the N-body problem
Consider the spatial -body problem with . Fix the center of mass at the origin. For each energy level , let denote the corresponding energy surface, and reparametrize the flow there by a smooth positive function so that collisions occur only at infinite time. The non-wandering set consists of points whose every neighborhood meets one of its nonzero-time iterates. Herman's global instability conjecture. For every , the non-wandering set of the Hamiltonian flow of on is nowhere dense in . This is one of Herman's conjectures concerning the oldest problem in dynamical systems. The source presents it as open and notes that even the completeness of the collision-regularized flow is unclear because of possible non-collision singularities.
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Primary source
Andrew Clarke, Jacques Fejoz and Marcel Guardia, “Why are inner planets not inclined?”, arXiv:2210.11311 (2022).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1109.2892.
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