On linking coefficient of two Keplerian orbits

DOI10.1023/A:1008384004589MaRDI QIDQ1568167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolay N. Vassiliev, K. V. Kholshevnikov

Publication date 21 June 2000

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008384004589

zbMATH Keywords

linking coefficientsorbital elementstopological invarianttwo Keplerian orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Review text

The authors propose three criteria to distinguish linked, nonlinked and coplanar or intersecting positions of two Keplerian orbits. The function of the set elements of pairs of Keplerian ellipses is defined in such a way that the sign of the function is a topological invariant of ellipses' configuration. In particular, the sign of the function is negative if and only if the related ellipses are linked. The authors also give formulas which represent the linking coefficients as functions of orbital elements.

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