Infinitely many bi-normal trajectories near the primaries in the spatial circular restricted three-body problem
Infinitely many bi-normal trajectories near the primaries in the spatial circular restricted three-body problem
Let be a trajectory in the spatial Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem, in the low-energy range and near the primaries. A trajectory is bi-normal to the -axis when there exist times such that
for , with the initial velocity pointing strictly outward from the Earth–Moon axis. Bi-normal trajectory conjecture. Assuming the twist condition, or a variation thereof, there exist infinitely many trajectories bi-normal to the -axis in the low-energy range and near the primaries. Such a trajectory starts on the Earth–Moon axis with velocity pointing strictly outward and returns after finite time to satisfy the same condition. This would extend the Poincaré–Birkhoff-type result to chords on the boundary of the relevant Liouville domain; the conjecture remains open in the supplied source.
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Agustin Moreno and Arthur Limoge, “Bi-normal trajectories in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem”, arXiv:2412.16671 (2025).
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