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Strong forces in Celestial Mechanics

Abstract Strong forces in celestial mechanics have the property that the particle moving under their action can describe periodic orbits, whose existence follows in a natural way from variational principles.…

Symmetric periodic orbits in proto-stellar system

Abstract We approach the dynamics in proto-stellar systems via the two-body problem associated to an anisotropic Schwarzschild-type potential. On the basis of the natural symmetries of the characteristic vector field,…