Alekseev's conjecture on the measure of oscillatory motions

Let OMOM denote the set of oscillatory motions in the restricted 33-body problem, namely the set of points whose forward and backward limit sets under the map PμP_\mu both contain the parabolic fixed point OO, excluding the set PP of parabolic motions:

OM={z=(x,y)R2 ⁣:OωP(z)αP(z)}P.OM=\{z=(x,y)\in\mathbb{R}^2\colon O\in\omega_P(z)\cap\alpha_P(z)\}\setminus P.

Alekseev's conjecture. The set OMOM has Lebesgue measure zero.

Oscillatory motions are a distinctive phenomenon of the restricted 33-body problem, and their abundance is related to the structure of the homoclinic class of the parabolic fixed point. The supplied source presents this as Alekseev's conjecture and gives no evidence of a resolution.

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Miguel Garrido, Pau Martín and Jaime Paradela, “Parabolic saddles and Newhouse domains in Celestial Mechanics”, arXiv:2411.02761 (2024).

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