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Questions of stability of orbits have been of interest since Newton first set down the laws that govern the motion of the celestial bodies. “Is the universe stable?” is almost a theological question. Even though the question is old and important, very little is known about the problem, and much of what is known is difficult to come by.
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Meyer, K.R., Hall, G.R. (1992). Stability and KAM Theory. In: Introduction to Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and the N-Body Problem. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 90. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4073-8_9
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