We consider the N-body problem given by quasihomogeneous force functions of the form (C_1)/r^a + (C_2)/r^b (C_1, C_2, a, b constants and a, b positive with a less than or equal to b) and address the fundamentals of homographic solutions. Generalizing techniques of the classical N-body problem, we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for a homographic solution to be either homothetic, or relative equilibrium. We further prove an analogue of the Lagrange-Pizzetti theorem based on our techniques. We also study the central configurations for quasihomogeneous force functions and settle the classification and properties of simultaneous and extraneous central configurations. In the last part of the thesis, we combine these findings with the Lagrange-Pizzetti theorem to show the link between homographic solutions and central configurations, to prove the existence of homographic solutions and to give algorithms for their construction. / Graduate

The following study examines whether the initialisation (multipole expansions at the finest level) and evaluation of the numerical method Fast Multipole Method (FMM) can benefit from implementing SSE instructions. The implementation of SSE-instructions have been studied and compared to the serial case. Moreover, studied parts of the algorithm include arithmetics on complex numbers, and the usage of applying SSE instructions to complex numbers of double precision. In conclusion, the initialisation has not experienced any improvement in terms of throughput by appliying SSE instructions. However, the evaluation reached almost the double speed-up when SSE instructions were applied. The difference in results are most likely due to the structure of the both algorithms. The initialisation is simple, but the evaluation which involves more operations can benefit from SSE instructions. Furthermore, a scheme is proposed for how SSE instructions can be applied to data sets which are not divisable by the unroll factor and to data sets of varying size.

We extend the concept of central configurations to the N-body problem in spaces of nonzero constant curvature. Based on the work of Florin Diacu on relative equilib- ria of the curved N-body problem and the work of Smale on general relative equilibria, we find a natural way to define the concept of central configurations with the effective potentials. We characterize the ordinary central configurations as constrained critical points of the cotangent potential, which helps us to establish the existence of ordi- nary central configurations for any given masses. After these fundamental results, we study central configurations on H2, ordinary central configurations in S3, and special central configurations in S3 in three separate chapters. For central configurations on H2, we generalize the theorem of Moulton on geodesic central configurations, the theorem of Shub on the compactness of central configurations, the theorem of Conley on the index of geodesic central configurations, and the theorem of Palmore on the lower bound for the number of central configurations. We show that all three-body central configurations that form equilateral triangles must have three equal masses. For ordinary central configurations in S3, we construct a class of S3 ordinary central configurations. We study the geodesic central configurations of two and three bodies. Three-body non-geodesic ordinary central configurations that form equilateral trian- gles must have three equal masses. We also put into the evidence some other classes of central configurations. For special central configurations, we show that for any N ≥ 3, there are masses that admit at least one special central configuration. We then consider the Dziobek special central configurations and obtain the central con- figuration equation in terms of mutual distances and volumes formed by the position vectors. We end the thesis with results concerning the stability of relative equilibria associated with 3-body special central configurations. We find that these relative equilibria are Lyapunov stable when confined to S1, and that they are linearly stable on S2 if and only if the angular momentum is bigger than a certain value determined by the configuration. / Graduate

We exhibit multiple periodic, collision-based orbits of the Newtonian n-body problem. Many of these orbits feature regularizable collisions between the masses. We demonstrate existence of the periodic orbits after performing the appropriate regularization. Stability, including linear stability, for the orbits is then computed using a technique due to Roberts. We point out other interesting features of the orbits as appropriate. When applicable, the results are extended to a broader family of orbits with similar behavior.

In this dissertation, regularization of simultaneous binary collision, existence of a Schubart-like periodic orbit, existence of a planar symmetric periodic orbit with multiple simultaneous binary collisions, and their linear stabilities are studied. The detailed background of those problems is introduced in chapter 1. The singularities of simultaneous binary collision in the collinear four-body problem is regularized in chapter 2. We use canonical transformations to collectively analytically continue the singularities of the simultaneous binary collision solutions in both the decoupled case and the coupled case. All the solutions are found and more importantly, we find a crucial first integral which describes the relationship between the decoupled solutions and the coupled solutions. In chapter 3, we show the existence of a Schubart-like orbit, a periodic orbit with singularities in the symmetric collinear four-body problem. In each period of the orbit, there is a binary collision (BC) between the inner two bodies and a simultaneous binary collision (SBC) of the two clusters on both sides of the origin. The system is regularized and the existence is proven by using a "turning point" technique and a continuity argument on differential equations of the regularized Hamiltonian. Analytical methods are used in chapter 4 to prove the existence of a periodic, symmetric solution with singularities in the planar 4-body problem. A numerical calculation and simulation are used to generate the orbit. The analytical method can be extended to any even number of bodies. Multiple simultaneous binary collisions are a key feature of the orbits generated. In chapter 5, we apply the analytic-numerical method of Roberts to determine the linear stability of time-reversible periodic simultaneous binary collision orbits in the symmetric collinear four body problem with masses 1, m, m , 1, and also in a symmetric planar four-body problem with equal masses. For the collinear problem, this verifies the earlier numerical results of Sweatman for linear stability.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(情報学) / 甲第24328号 / 情博第812号 / 新制||情||137(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院情報学研究科数理工学専攻 / (主査)准教授 柴山 允瑠, 教授 矢ヶ崎 一幸, 教授 山下 信雄, 教授 田口 智清 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Informatics / Kyoto University / DFAM

Neste trabalho, desenvolvemos um mapeamento simplético que nos permite estudar o comportamento dinâmico de ressonâncias asteroidais no âmbito do problema dos três corpos restrito, elíptico, espacial. Para obter este mapeamento, combinamos um esquema simplético similar ao desenvolvido por Hadjidemetriou (1986) junto com o desenvolvimento assimétrico da função perturbadora (Ferraz-Mello, 1987), que leva em conta as inclinações do perturbado e do perturbador como sendo referidas a um plano invariante (Roig et al., 1997). Este mapeamento é aplicado aos casos das ressonâncias asteroidais 2/1 e 3/2. Estudam-se um grande número de condições iniciais no espaço de fase, de forma a conseguir tirar conclusões de tipo estatístico sobre os processos envolvidos na geração de mecanismos difusivos que podem agir nessas ressonâncias. / In this work, we developed a symplectic mapping which allow us to study the dynamical behaviour of asteroidal resonances in the frame of the non-planar elliptic restricted three-body problem. To obtain such a mapping we combine a symplectic scheme similar to that of Hadjidemetriou (1986) together with an asymmetric expansion of the disturbing funtion (Ferraz-Mello, 1987) which takes into account the inclinations of both the perturber and the disturbed bodies (Roig et al., 1997). This mapping is applied to the 2/1 and 3/2 mean motion resonances in the asteroidal belt. We explore a wide range of initial conditions in the phase space in order to get a large number of results which allow us to make some statistical conclusions about the generation of diffusion mechanisms acting in these resonances.

No presente trabalho apresentaremos alguns aspectos do problema Newtoniano de n Corpos. Estudaremos o caso de dois corpos, que tem solução direta, embora não seja possível obter todas as variáveis como função do tempo. No caso n maior ou igual a 3 mostraremos que não existe método para integrar este problema via quadraturas. Podemos tirar apenas algumas informações sobre o caso geral, como a Identidade de Lagrange-Jacobi, o Teorema de Sundman-Weierstrass entre outros. Veremos alguns casos de soluções particulares, que serão chamadas de soluções homográficas. Nestas soluções a forma geométrica da configuração inicial dos corpos é preservada durante o movimento. Veremos condições necessárias sobre as configurações iniciais para que seja possível obter estas soluções. Mostraremos uma relação existente entre estas soluções particulares e os pontos críticos de uma aplicação, que associa a uma configuração a energia total e o momento angular total do sistema. Nestes vários casos, cairemos numa mesma equação algébrica, que será chamada de equação das configurações centrais. Mostraremos, em seguida, que as equações de configurações centrais são equivalentes a um outro conjunto de equações algébricas, que servem também para calcular as chamadas configurações centrais, porém, com estas equações as simetrias do problema ficam mais claras, às vezes. Faremos algumas aplicações diretas destas equações algébricas. Uma subclasse interessante da classe das configurações centrais são as chamadas de equações diferenciais empilhadas, nas quais um subconjunto próprio dos corpos também forma uma configuração central. Nos dois últimos capítulos veremos alguns exemplos de configurações centrais deste tipo, em especial aquelas onde podemos retirar uma massa e ainda ter uma configuração central. / In this work we present some aspects of the Newtonian n--body problem. We study the case of two bodies, which have a straightforward solution, although we can not get all the variables as functions of the time. For n greater or equal to 3 we show that there is no method to integrate this problem by quadratures. We can have just some information about the general case, as the Lagrange-Jacobi\'s Identity the Sundman-Weierstrass\'s theorem and others. We will see some cases of particular solutions, which will be called homographic solutions. In these solutions the geometric shape of initial configuration of the bodies is preserved during the movement. We will see necessary conditions on the initial positions that turn possible to obtain these solutions. We show a relation between these particular solutions and critical points of an application, that associate the total energy and total angular momentum of the system. In these several cases, we will fall in same algebraic equation, which we called of the central configurations equations. We show that the central configurations equations are equivalent to another set of algebraic equations, which are also used to compute the central configurations, but with these equations the symmetries of the problem become clearer. We will make some direct applications these algebraic equations. An interesting subclass of the class of central configurations are called stacked differential equations, in which a proper subset of the bodies form a central configuration too. In the last two chapters we will see some examples of central configurations of this kind, especially those where we can remove a mass and still have a central configuration.

No presente trabalho apresentaremos alguns aspectos do problema Newtoniano de n Corpos. Estudaremos o caso de dois corpos, que tem solução direta, embora não seja possível obter todas as variáveis como função do tempo. No caso n maior ou igual a 3 mostraremos que não existe método para integrar este problema via quadraturas. Podemos tirar apenas algumas informações sobre o caso geral, como a Identidade de Lagrange-Jacobi, o Teorema de Sundman-Weierstrass entre outros. Veremos alguns casos de soluções particulares, que serão chamadas de soluções homográficas. Nestas soluções a forma geométrica da configuração inicial dos corpos é preservada durante o movimento. Veremos condições necessárias sobre as configurações iniciais para que seja possível obter estas soluções. Mostraremos uma relação existente entre estas soluções particulares e os pontos críticos de uma aplicação, que associa a uma configuração a energia total e o momento angular total do sistema. Nestes vários casos, cairemos numa mesma equação algébrica, que será chamada de equação das configurações centrais. Mostraremos, em seguida, que as equações de configurações centrais são equivalentes a um outro conjunto de equações algébricas, que servem também para calcular as chamadas configurações centrais, porém, com estas equações as simetrias do problema ficam mais claras, às vezes. Faremos algumas aplicações diretas destas equações algébricas. Uma subclasse interessante da classe das configurações centrais são as chamadas de equações diferenciais empilhadas, nas quais um subconjunto próprio dos corpos também forma uma configuração central. Nos dois últimos capítulos veremos alguns exemplos de configurações centrais deste tipo, em especial aquelas onde podemos retirar uma massa e ainda ter uma configuração central. / In this work we present some aspects of the Newtonian n--body problem. We study the case of two bodies, which have a straightforward solution, although we can not get all the variables as functions of the time. For n greater or equal to 3 we show that there is no method to integrate this problem by quadratures. We can have just some information about the general case, as the Lagrange-Jacobi\'s Identity the Sundman-Weierstrass\'s theorem and others. We will see some cases of particular solutions, which will be called homographic solutions. In these solutions the geometric shape of initial configuration of the bodies is preserved during the movement. We will see necessary conditions on the initial positions that turn possible to obtain these solutions. We show a relation between these particular solutions and critical points of an application, that associate the total energy and total angular momentum of the system. In these several cases, we will fall in same algebraic equation, which we called of the central configurations equations. We show that the central configurations equations are equivalent to another set of algebraic equations, which are also used to compute the central configurations, but with these equations the symmetries of the problem become clearer. We will make some direct applications these algebraic equations. An interesting subclass of the class of central configurations are called stacked differential equations, in which a proper subset of the bodies form a central configuration too. In the last two chapters we will see some examples of central configurations of this kind, especially those where we can remove a mass and still have a central configuration.

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