Darboux inversions of the Kepler problem

DOI10.1134/S1560354722030017MaRDI QIDQ6387408arXivFDO

Authors Alain Albouy, Lei Zhao

Publication date 3 January 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S1560354722030017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Two-body problems (70F05) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.DGmath.MP

Abstract: While extending a famous problem asked and solved by Bertrand in 1873, Darboux found in 1877 a family of abstract surfaces of revolution, each endowed with a force function, with the striking property that all the orbits are periodic on open sets of the phase space. We give a description of this family which explains why they have this property: they are the Darboux inverses of the Kepler problem on constant curvature surfaces. What we call the Darboux inverse was briefly introduced by Darboux in 1889 as an alternative approach to the conformal maps that Goursat had just described.

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