Central potentials on spaces of constant curvature: The Kepler problem on the two-dimensional sphere S2 and the hyperbolic plane H2

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DOI10.1063/1.1893214zbMATH Open1110.70013arXivmath-ph/0504016OpenAlexW2002759085MaRDI QIDQ3438409FDOQ3438409


Authors: J. F. Cariñena, Manuel F. Rañada, Mariano Santander Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 May 2007

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

Abstract: The Kepler problem is a dynamical system that is well defined not only on the Euclidean plane but also on the sphere and on the Hyperbolic plane. First, the theory of central potentials on spaces of constant curvature is studied. All the mathematical expressions are presented using the curvature k as a parameter, in such a way that they reduce to the appropriate property for the system on the sphere S2, or on the hyperbolic plane H2, when particularized for k>0, or k<0, respectively; in addition, the Euclidean case arises as the particular case k=0. In the second part we study the main properties of the Kepler problem on spaces with curvature, we solve the equations and we obtain the explicit expressions of the orbits by using two different methods: first by direct integration and second by obtaining the k-dependent version of the Binet's equation. The final part of the article, that has a more geometric character, is devoted to the study of the theory of conics on spaces of constant curvature.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0504016




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