Conjecture on the classification of final motions by super-hyperbolic building blocks

Let N4N\geq 4 and consider the final motions of the NN-body problem as tt\to\infty. The building blocks are hyperbolic (H\mathcal H), parabolic (P\mathcal P), bounded (B\mathcal B), oscillatory (OS\mathcal{OS}), and super-hyperbolic (SH\mathcal{SH}) motions, where super-hyperbolic means that the system grows super-linearly with respect to time.

Final-motion classification conjecture. For the NN-body problem with N4N\geq 4, every logically possible combination of

H,P,B,OS,SH\mathcal H,\mathcal P,\mathcal B,\mathcal{OS},\mathcal{SH}

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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