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Periodic Orbits of a Collinear Restricted Three-Body Problem

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In this paper we study symmetric periodic orbits of a collinear restricted three-body problem, when the middle mass is the largest one. These symmetric periodic orbits are obtained from analytic continuation of symmetric periodic orbits of two collinear two-body problems.

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  1. Departament d'Informàtica i Matemàtica, Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Vic, C/Laura 13, E-08500, Vic, Barcelona, Spain, e-mail

    Montserrat Corbera

  2. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, e-mail

    Jaume Llibre

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Corbera, M., Llibre, J. Periodic Orbits of a Collinear Restricted Three-Body Problem. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 86, 163–183 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024183003251

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