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Investigating the relation between chaos and the three body problem

T. S. Sachin Venkatesh·Vishak Vikranth
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We review the properties of fractals, the Mandelbrot set and how deterministic chaos ties to the picture. A detailed study on three body systems, one of the major applications of chaos theory was undertaken. Systems belonging to different families produced till date were studied and their properties were analysed. We then segregated them into three classes according to their properties. We suggest that such reviews be carried out in regular intervals of time as there are an infinite number of solutions for three body systems and some of them may prove to be useful in various domains apart from hierarchical systems.

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T. S. Sachin Venkatesh, Vishak Vikranth. 2020-09-15. Investigating the relation between chaos and the three body problem. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12756

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