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Title Complex analytic aspects of the 3-tangent theorem on the planar 3-body problem

Name Katsumi Matsuda
Country Japan
Email monk@tokai-u.jp
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Submit Time 2014-03-31 10:58:59
Session
Special Session 15: Geometric and variational techniques in the N-body problem
Contents
We reformulate, in the complex analytic context, the 3-tangent theorem of Fujiwara-Fukuda-Ozaki; if planar three body orbits has zero linear momentum and zero angular momentum, then three tangent lines at bodies meet at a point. Considering the singularities, points at infinity on projective plane, and ramificaiton, we extend their study of equal mass three-body choreography on the real lemniscate $(x^2+y^2)^2=x^2-y^2$ to complex projective context, and show that the intersection points of three tangent lines in the lemniscate case draw a conic, which is the rectangular hyperbola $z^2-w^2=1$ in ${C}^2$ with coordinate system $(z,w)$. And we also describe relate topics.