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Étude topologique générale des équations différentielles conservatives (indépendantes du temps ou périodiques). Application à la mécanique céleste
Les systèmes d'équations différentielles conservatives (indépendants du temps ou périodiques) sont très courants, par example ceux mis sous la forme canonique deHamilton et dont l'Hamiltonien est suffisamment rég...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Qualitative Methods and Results in Celestial Mechanics
In a non integrable problem qualitative methods give partial but also rigorously demonstrated properties, they have been essentially developed by Poincaré, Sundman, Chazy, Khilmi, Merman, Sitnikov, Alexeev etc …
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The quasi integrals
The usual Von Zeipel transformations of the Hamiltonian Mechanics are presented, they lead to state functions with extremely slow variations: the ‘quasi-integrals’.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Regularization of the Singularities of the N-Body Problem
The n-body problem has two types of singularities: the collisions of two or several bodies and “the infinite expansions in a bounded interval of time.”
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Chapter
Kaliomimetic Ion Transport by Injured Membrane During in Vitro Hyperthermia of Tumor Cells
Despite the fact that the mechanisms responsible for tumor cell death during hyperthermia are not well known, there is evidence that cell membrane changes related to small temperature variations are the possib...
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Chapter
Three-Body Problem Some Applications of the Tests of Escape
Some recent tests have given excellent results in the analysis of three-body systems with three equal masses. These analyses are here extended to systems of unequal masses and lead to the following.
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On quasi-integrable problems. The example of the artificial satellites perturbed by the Earth's zonal harmonics
With the Hamiltonian parameters developed for the two-fixed-centers problem a simple and very accurate expression of the ‘quasi-integral’ can be given for the motion of artificial satellites perturbed by the E...
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A small example of Arnold diffusion
The Arnold diffusion occurs in the vicinity of most linearly stable solutions of non-integrable autonomous Hamiltonian systems with more than two degrees of freedom. This diffusion is an extremely slow phenome...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Round Table Discussion on Chaotic Motions
The importance of chaotic motions has been recognized only recently.
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Chapter
The Near-Resonance Theorem: Analysis of the Vicinity of Periodic Solutions of Analytic Differential Systems
The near-resonance theorem allows us to simplify the systems of differential equations and to study the vicinity and the stability of their periodic solutions. It leads to suitable transformations that cancel ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Small Example of Arnold Diffusion
The Arnold diffusion occurs in the vicinity of most linearly stable solutions of non-integrable autonomous Hamiltonian systems with more than two degrees of freedom.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Qualitative Analysis in the Few Body Problem
After a small illustrative example, the development of qualitative methods in Celestial Mechanics is presented in an essentially chronological way, from the early researches of particular solutions and new int...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Mystery of Pluto’s Mass
After a short presentation of the Pluto-Charon system and the history of its mass determinations some first reasons are presented that support the existence of a ring of billions of small satellites about Plut...
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Article
The mystery of Pluto's mass
After a short presentation of the Pluto-Charon system and the history of its mass determinations some first reasons are presented that support the existence of a ring of billions of small satellites about Plut...
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Chapter
Chaos as the True Source of the Irreversibility of Time
After a first part about the various definitions of time, the main examples of irreversibilities are presented.
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Chapter
Analytic Hamiltonian Systems, the Vicinity of a Periodic Solution
After the presentation of ordinary analytic systems of differential equations, the successive simplifications allowing the study of a periodic solution and its vicinity are described.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Astrodynamic Study of the Earth Rotation
Earth rotation and the position of poles are essential elements of climate. Since centuries the motion of the poles with respect to the Earth’s surface has remained very small, but this was not necessarily the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Henri Poincaré: A Decisive Contribution to Special Relativity
Maxwell’s electromagnetism equations and the old notions of Newtonian absolute time and Euclidian absolute space were contradictory with the impossibility of detection of the Earth’s absolute motion.
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Chapter
Tests of General Relativity Using Small Bodies of the Solar System
The tests of general relativity have two main purposes:
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To verify, or not, some consequences of the general relativity. The ST...
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The Family P12 of the Three-body Problem – The Simplest Family of Periodic Orbits, with Twelve Symmetries Per Period
A beautiful plane eight-shaped orbit has been found by Alain Chenciner, Richard Montgomery and Carles Simo through the minimisation of the action between suitable limit conditions. The three masses are equal a...