Global Time-Renormalization of the Gravitational N-body Problem
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2021-01-01Metadata
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This work considers the gravitational N-body problem and introduces global time-renormalization functions that allow the efficient numerical integration with fixed time-steps. First, a lower bound of the radius of convergence of the solution to the original equations is derived, which suggests an appropriate time-renormalization. In the new fictitious time \tau , it is then proved that any solution exists for all \tau \in R and that it is uniquely extended as a holomorphic function to a strip of fixed width. As a by-product, a global power series representation of the solutions of the N-body problem is obtained. Notably, our global time-renormalizations remain valid in the limit when one of the masses vanishes. Finally, numerical experiments show the efficiency of the new time-renormalization functions for the numerical integration of some N-body problems with close encounters.