Wu-Yi Hsiang
Eldar Straume

Kinematic geometry of triangles and the study of the three-body problem

(Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics, Vol.25, pp.9-130 )


The classical three-body problem studies the motion of a system with three point masses under the action of the Newtonian gravitational potential. The paper concerns both the geometry and the analysis of the solutions of the above problem.

 

 

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