Who's Afraid of the Hill Boundary?

• Published in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Date: 2014
• Main Author: Montgomery, R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2014
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/146540
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Who's Afraid of the Hill Boundary?/ R. Montgomery // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2014. — Т. 10. — Бібліогр.: 8 назв. — англ.

The Jacobi-Maupertuis metric allows one to reformulate Newton's equations as geodesic equations for a Riemannian metric which degenerates at the Hill boundary. We prove that a JM geodesic which comes sufficiently close to a regular point of the boundary contains pairs of conjugate points close...