We prove the existence of a new branch of solutions of Mountain Pass type for the periodic 3-body problem with choreographical
constraint. At first we describe the variational structure of the action functional associated to the choreographical three
body problem in
\mathbbR3\mathbb{R}^{3}. In the second part, using a bisection algorithm, we provide a numerical non-rigorous solution of Mountain Pass type for
this problem in a rotating frame with angular velocity 1.5. The last step consists in the rigorous computer-assisted proof
of the existence of a full branch of solutions for the problem starting from the Mountain Pass solution detected numerically.
Communicated by G. Gallavotti
This work was supported by the MIUR project “Metodi Variazionali ed Equazioni Differenziali non Lineari.”