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2010.05130

GLOBAL EXISTENCE AND SINGULARITY OF THE HILL’S TYPE LUNAR PROBLEM WITH STRONG POTENTIAL

Yanxia Deng, Slim Ibrahim

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The uploaded paper proves the sub-threshold dichotomy, threshold classification, and the near-threshold ejection/no-return/collision result for the planar Hill’s type lunar problem with homogeneous potential, defining W, the ground states ±Q, and the ground state energy E* as the minimum of E under W=0 (Lemma 1, Definition 2) ; it establishes invariance of W± below E*, globality in W+, bounded-or-collision in W−, and for α ≥ 2 finite-time collision in W− (Theorem 1, Lemma 6, Proposition 2) ; it also gives the threshold dynamics (Theorem 2, Proposition 3–4) and the near-threshold ejection/one-pass and collision for exits with W<0 (Theorem 3; Section 5) . The candidate solution reproduces these results with essentially the same virial/variational mechanism and invariant manifold arguments, differing only in notational conventions (e.g., using I = r^2 so I¨ = 4K + 4L + 2W versus the paper’s I = 1/2 r^2 so I¨ = K) and in minor exposition. No substantive logical discrepancies were found; the model correctly restricts the finite-time collision and one-pass collision criterion to the strong-force regime α ≥ 2 and does not overclaim on the W>0 “no-return” case that the paper leaves as a conjecture .

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\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field

\textbf{Justification:}

A careful and correct adaptation of ground-state/virial methods yields a sharp, energy-threshold-based global-versus-singularity classification for the Hill’s type lunar problem with strong potential. The main results are well supported by precise variational bounds, virial concavity, and invariant manifold theory. Minor improvements would further polish the exposition (e.g., replacing figure-assisted steps with short analytic arguments and reiterating where the strong-force assumption enters).