The classical Kepler problem and geodesic motion on spaces of constant curvature

DOI10.1063/1.1324652zbMath0989.70005arXiv1411.5355MaRDI QIDQ2731823

Richard Barrett, Aidan J. Keane, John F. L. Simmons

Publication date: 30 July 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5355

zbMATH Keywords

energy; canonical transformation; Hamiltonian vector field; Hamiltonian systems; phase flow; geodesic motion; constants of motion; mass parameter; Runge-Lenz vector; spaces of constant curvature; curvature parameter; classical Kepler problem; family of evolution spaces; Poisson bracket Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

70F05: Two-body problems

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

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