Symbolic-numerical methods for searching equilibrium states in a restricted four-body problem

  • Authors:
  • D. A. Budzko;A. N. Prokopenya

  • Affiliations:
  • Brest State University, Brest, Belarus 224016;Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 02-787 and Brest State Technical University, Brest, Belarus 224017

  • Venue:
  • Programming and Computing Software
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Algorithms for searching equilibrium solutions of the circular restricted four-body problem formulated on the basis of the triangular Lagrange solutions of the three-body problem are discussed. An algorithm is proposed for calculating the bifurcation curve in the plane of system parameters that separates domains of the eight and ten equilibrium solutions. For the parameter values corresponding to the bifurcation curve, the system has nine equilibrium solutions. In the neighborhood of the bifurcation points, the equilibrium solutions are found in the form of power series in terms of a small parameter. The dependence of these solutions on the system parameters is studied numerically. Codes of algorithms implemented in the computer algebra system Mathematica are presented.