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Nonlinearity, Complexity and Foundations in Mathematics

Expanding solutions to the N-body problem

speaker: Susanna Terracini (Università di Torino)

abstract: We deal, for the classical $N$-body problem, with the existence of action minimizing half entire expansive solutions with prescribed asymptotic direction and initial configuration of the bodies. We tackle the cases of hyperbolic, hyperbolic-parabolic and parabolic arcs in a unified manner. Our approach is based on the minimization of a renormalized Lagrangian action, on a suitable functional space. With this new strategy, we are able to confirm the already-known results of the existence of both hyperbolic and parabolic solutions, and we prove for the first time the existence of hyperbolic-parabolic solutions for any prescribed asymptotic expansion in a suitable class. Associated with each element of this class we find a viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation as a linear correction of the value function. Besides, we also manage to give a precise description of the growth of parabolic and hyperbolic-parabolic solutions.


timetable:
Fri 13 Sep, 12:50 - 13:20, Aula Dini
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