D Gómez-Ullate et al 2004 New J. Phys. 6 24 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/024
New many-body problems in the plane with periodic solutions
D Gómez-Ullate1, A N W Hone2 and M Sommacal3
Show affiliationsIn this paper we discuss a family of toy models for many-body interactions including velocity-dependent forces. By generalizing a construction due to Calogero, we obtain a class of N-body problems in the plane which have periodic orbits for a large class of initial conditions. The two- and three-body cases (N=2, 3) are exactly solvable, with all solutions being periodic, and we present their explicit solutions. For N≥4 Painlevé analysis indicates that the system should not be integrable, and some periodic and non-periodic trajectories are calculated numerically. The construction can be generalized to a broad class of systems, and the mechanism which describes the transition to orbits with higher periods, and eventually to aperiodic or even chaotic orbits, could be present in more realistic models with a mixed phase space. This scenario is different from the onset of chaos by a sequence of Hopf bifurcations.
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Issue 1 (February 2004)
Received 3 October 2003
Published 17 February 2004
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New many-body problems in the plane with periodic solutions
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