Conjecture on the classification of final motions by super-hyperbolic building blocks
Conjecture on the classification of final motions by super-hyperbolic building blocks
Let and consider the final motions of the -body problem as . The building blocks are hyperbolic (), parabolic (), bounded (), oscillatory (), and super-hyperbolic () motions, where super-hyperbolic means that the system grows super-linearly with respect to time.
Final-motion classification conjecture. For the -body problem with , every logically possible combination of
is realized by an orbit, and there are no other possibilities.
This conjecture proposes that super-hyperbolic motion is the only new building block needed beyond those in the three-body Chazy classification. The paper states that the conjecture is strongly supported by a theorem of Marshal and Saari, but the classification itself remains open.
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Guan Huang and Jinxin Xue, “Super-hyperbolic orbits and non-collision singularities in a four-body problem”, arXiv:2302.12410 (2023).
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