Mountain pass frozen planet orbits in the helium atom model
Stefano Baranzini
Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, ItalyGian Marco Canneori
Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, ItalySusanna Terracini
Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
Abstract
We seek frozen planet orbits for the helium atom through an application of the mountain pass lemma to the Lagrangian action functional. Our method applies to a wide class of gravitational-like interaction potentials, thus generalising the results in Cieliebak, Frauenfelder, and Volkov [Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré C Anal. Non Linéaire 40 (2023), 379–455]. We also let the charges of the two electrons tend to zero and perform an asymptotic analysis to prove convergence to a limit trajectory having a collision-reflection singularity between the electrons.
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Stefano Baranzini, Gian Marco Canneori, Susanna Terracini, Mountain pass frozen planet orbits in the helium atom model. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré C Anal. Non Linéaire (2024), published online first
DOI 10.4171/AIHPC/140