Many Body Symmetrical Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We investigate the stability of few body symmetrical dynamical systems which include four and five body symmetrical dynamical systems. Research presented in this thesis includes the following original investigations: determination of some analytical solutions of the four body problem; stability analysis of the near symmetric coplanar CSFBP ; derivation of the analytical stability criterion valid for all time for a special symmetric configuration of the general five-body problem, the CS5BP, which exhibits many of the salient characteristics of the general five body problem; numerical investigation of the hierarchical stability of the CS5BP and derivation of the stability criterion for the CSNBP.