Yuwei Ou

It is well known that the linear stability of elliptic Lagrangian solutions depends on the mass parameter $\beta = 27(m_1m_2+m_2m_3+m_3m_1)/(m_1+m_2+m_3)^2 \in [0,9]$ and the eccentricity $e \in [0,1)$. Based on new techniques for evaluating the hyperbolicity and the recently developed trace formula for Hamiltonian systems [9], we identify regions for $(\beta,e)$ such that elliptic Lagrangian solutions are hyperbolic. Consequently, we have proven that the elliptic relative equilibrium of square central configurations is hyperbolic with any eccentricity.