The relativistic three-body problem is approached via the extension of the SL(2, C) group to the Sp(4, C) one. In terms of Sp(4, C) spinors, a Dirac-like equation with three-body kinematics is composed. After introducing the linear in coordinates interaction, it describes the spin-1/2 oscillator. For this system, the exact energy spectrum is derived and then applied to fit the Regge trajectories of baryon N-resonances in the (E 2, J) plane. The model predicts linear trajectories at high total energy E with some form of nonlinearity at low E.
In this paper we consider the noncanonical Hamiltonian dynamics of a gyrostat in the three-body problem. By means of geometric mechanics methods, we study the approximate Poisson dynamics that arise when we develop the potential of the system in Legendre series and truncate this to an arbitrary order k. After reduction of the dynamics by means of the two symmetries of the system, we consider the existence and number of equilibria which we denominate of Lagrangian type, in analogy with classic results on the topic. Necessary and sufficient conditions are established for their existence in an approximate dynamics of order k, and explicit expressions for these equilibria are given, this being useful for the subsequent study of their stability. The number of Lagrangian equilibria is thoroughly studied in approximate dynamics of orders zero and one. The main result of this work indicates that the number of Lagrangian equilibria in an approximate dynamics of order k for k ≥1 is independent of the order of truncation of the potential, if the gyrostat S 0 is almost spherical. In relation to the stability of these equilibria, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for linear stability of Lagrangian equilibria when the gyrostat is almost spherical. In this way, we generalize the classical results on equilibria of the three-body problem and many results provided by other authors using more classical techniques for the case of rigid bodies.
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