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Mathematics Colloquium: Three Open Questions in the Three-Body Problem

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Mathematics Department
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Nov 11, 2021   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Richard Montgomery (UCSC)
Contact
Yuliy Baryshnikov
E-Mail
ymb@illinois.edu
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The classical 3-body problem is alive and well. I start with a pictorial survey of solutions, then describe
two or three open questions and recent progress on them. The shape sphere, a sphere parameterizing
oriented similarity classes of planar triangles, will provide a unifying perspective.  

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