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The global solution of the n-body problem. (English) Zbl 0726.70006

Summary: The problem of finding a global solution for systems in celestial mechanics was proposed by Weierstrass during the last century. More precisely, the goal is to find a solution of the n-body problem in series expansion which is valid for all time. Sundman solved this problem for the case of \(n=3\) with nonzero angular momentum a long time ago. Unfortunately, it is impossible to directly generalize this beautiful theory to the case of \(n>3\) or to \(n=3\) with zero-angular momentum.
A new ‘blowing up’ transformation, which is a modification of McGehee’s transformation, is introduced in this paper. By means of this transformation, a complete answer is given for the global solution problem in the case of \(n>3\) and \(n=3\) with zero angular momentum.

MSC:

70F10 \(n\)-body problems
70F15 Celestial mechanics
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