Abstract
Rigorous results on Hill Stability for the classical <italic>N</italic> -body problem are in general unknown for <italic>N</italic> ≥ 3, due to the complex interactions that may occur between bodies and the many different outcomes which may occur. However, the addition of finite density for the bodies along with a rigidity assumption on their mass distribution allows for Hill stability to be easily established. In this note we generalize results on Hill stability developed for the Full 3-body problem and show that it can be applied to the Full <italic>N</italic> -body problem. Further, we find that Hill Stability concepts can be applied to identify types of configurations which can escape and types which cannot as a function of the system energy.
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