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Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 2023 Volume 28, Issue 4-5, Pages 628–658 (Mi rcd1225)

This article is cited in 3 papers

Special Issue: On the 80th birthday of professor A. Chenciner

Compactification of the Energy Surfaces for $n$ Bodies

Andreas Knaufa, Richard Montgomeryb

a Department of Mathematics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Cauerstr. 11, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
b Mathematics Department, UC Santa Cruz, 4111 McHenry, CA 95064 Santa Cruz, USA

Abstract: For $n$ bodies moving in Euclidean $d$-space under the influence of a homogeneous pair interaction we compactify every center of mass energy surface, obtaining a $\big(2d(n -1)-1\big)$-dimensional manifold with corners in the sense of Melrose. After a time change, the flow on this manifold is globally defined and nontrivial on the boundary.

Keywords: regularization, scattering, collision.

MSC: 70F15, 70F16, 70F10

Received: 13.03.2023
Accepted: 17.07.2023

Language: English

DOI: 10.1134/S1560354723040081



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