Overview
- Book combines modern symplectic geometry with the classical three-body problem,
- It is an excellent introduction to holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds, focusing in the case of four-dimensional symplectizations and symplectic cobordisms
- It is currently the only book of this kind
Part of the book series: Pathways in Mathematics (PATHMATH)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book serves as an introduction to holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds, focusing on the case of four-dimensional symplectizations and symplectic cobordisms, and their applications to celestial mechanics.
The authors study the restricted three-body problem using recent techniques coming from the theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves. The book starts with an introduction to relevant topics in symplectic topology and Hamiltonian dynamics before introducing some well-known systems from celestial mechanics, such as the Kepler problem and the restricted three-body problem. After an overview of different regularizations of these systems, the book continues with a discussion of periodic orbits and global surfaces of section for these and more general systems. The second half of the book is primarily dedicated to developing the theory of holomorphic curves - specifically the theory of fast finite energy planes - to elucidate the proofs of the existence results for global surfaces of section stated earlier. The book closes with a chapter summarizing the results of some numerical experiments related to finding periodic orbits and global surfaces of sections in the restricted three-body problem.
This book is also part of the Virtual Series on Symplectic Geometry
http://www.springer.com/series/16019
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Restricted Three-Body Problem and Holomorphic Curves
Authors: Urs Frauenfelder, Otto van Koert
Series Title: Pathways in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72278-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72277-1Published: 06 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10180-0Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72278-8Published: 29 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2367-3451
Series E-ISSN: 2367-346X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 374
Topics: Differential Geometry, Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces