From: "JACK L. URETSKY (C) 1996; HEP DIV., ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB, ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@hep.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:55:35 -0600 (CST)
High Leigh-
I've been looking at the 4-charges problem also. You write:
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The solutions here will be chaotic in some regimes. If q and Q are of
the same sign then the subsequent motion will be simple (and dull) and
not chaotic. If q and Q are of opposite sign things get interesting. It
is only this case that I will discuss below.
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I haven't found the same sign problem "dull". The issue is,
how do the two pairs of particles split up the total energy? I'm convinced
that John is correct; there is another constant of the motion other than
the total energy, but I haven't found it yet either. I'm not quite ready
to give up, though.
Regards,
Jack