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Paper · 2111.15631 · NeurIPS · 2021

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

Maxwell Cai, Simon Portegies Zwart, Damian Podareanu

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Abstract

The gravitational N -body problem, which is fundamentally important in astrophysics to predict the motion of N 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 for splitting the Hamiltonian into a two-body part, solvable analytically, and an interaction part that we approximate with a NN. Our neural symplectic N -body code integrates a general three-body system for 10 5 steps without diverting from the ground truth dynamics obtained from a traditional N -body integrator. Moreover, it exhibits good inductive bias by successfully predicting the evolution of N -body systems that are no part of the training set.

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