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Escape or retention in the three-body problem

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Sufficient conditions for escape and for retention in the three-body problem are derived which, for escape, are more stringent than those previously derived and, for retention, avoid the difficulty of containing the inverse of the mass of the escaping particle.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematical Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

    J. S. Griffith & R. D. North

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Griffith, J.S., North, R.D. Escape or retention in the three-body problem. Celestial Mechanics 8, 473–479 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01227799

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