# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2013, 33(3): 1157-1175. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1157

## On the stability of the Lagrangian homographic solutions in a curved three-body problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$

 1 Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 2 Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona

Received  May 2011 Revised  November 2011 Published  October 2012

The problem of three bodies with equal masses in $\mathbb{S}^2$ is known to have Lagrangian homographic orbits. We study the linear stability and also a "practical'' (or effective) stability of these orbits on the unit sphere.
Citation: Regina Martínez, Carles Simó. On the stability of the Lagrangian homographic solutions in a curved three-body problem on $\mathbb{S}^2$. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (3) : 1157-1175. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1157
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