A conjecture on Kepler's third law of n-body periodic orbits

Abstract

Three-body and n-body problems in celestial mechanics are age-old and challenging puzzles. In recent years, several breakthroughs are made in finding periodic orbits for three-body problem. And Bohua Sun proposed a conjecture on Kepler's third law of three-body and n-body problems by using the dimensional analysis method and the mass product symmetry of Newtonian gravitational field. In this paper, the background as well as the research progress on the Kepler's third law, three-body and n-body problems is introduced briefly, and then Bohua Sun's conjecture on Kepler's third law of three-body and n-body problems is reviewed from the perspective of both theory and application.