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# Neural Symplectic Integrator with Hamiltonian Inductive Bias for the Gravitational $N$-body Problem

@article{Cai2021NeuralSI,
title={Neural Symplectic Integrator with Hamiltonian Inductive Bias for the Gravitational \$N\$-body Problem},
author={Maxwell Xu Cai and Simon Portegies Zwart and Damian Podareanu},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2111.15631}
}
• Published 28 November 2021
• Physics
• ArXiv
The gravitational N -body problem, which is fundamentally important in astrophysics to predict the motion ofN celestial bodies under the mutual gravity of each other, is usually solved numerically because there is no known general analytical solution for N > 2. Can an N -body problem be solved accurately by a neural network (NN)? Can a NN observe long-term conservation of energy and orbital angular momentum? Inspired by Wistom & Holman’s symplectic map, we present a neural N -body integrator…
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