Overview

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

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Author:   Urs Frauenfelder ,  Otto van Koert
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.746kg
ISBN:  

9783319722771

ISBN 10:   3319722778
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   06 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian mechanics.- Symmetries.- Regularization of two body collisions.- The restricted three body problem.- Contact geometry and the restricted three body problem.- Periodic orbits in Hamiltonian systems.- Periodic orbits in the restricted three body problem.- Global surfaces of section.- The Maslov Index.- Spectral flow.- Convexity.- Finite energy planes.- Siefring's intersection theory for fast finite energy planes.- The moduli space of fast finite energy planes.- Compactness.- Construction of global surfaces of section.- Numerics and dynamics via global surfaces of section.

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