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Attempts at Generalization

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With the preceding results, there is room to hope that they can be extended to the case where the equations of dynamics have more than two degrees of freedom and consequently to the general case of the n-body problem? It is possible, but it will not happen without a new effort.

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Poincaré, H. (2017). Attempts at Generalization. In: The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 443. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52899-1_7

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