Keplerian dynamics on the Heisenberg group and elsewhere

DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-2441-7_14zbMATH Open1342.70041arXiv1212.2713OpenAlexW2963457529MaRDI QIDQ3463522FDOQ3463522

Authors: Richard Montgomery, Corey Shanbrom 

Publication date: 19 January 2016

Published in: Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Posing Kepler's problem of motion around a fixed "sun" requires the geometric mechanician to choose a metric and a Laplacian. The metric provides the kinetic energy. The fundamental solution to the Laplacian (with delta source at the "sun") provides the potential energy. Posing Kepler's three laws (with input from Galileo) requires symmetry conditions. The metric space must be homogeneous, isotropic, and admit dilations. Any Riemannian manifold enjoying these three symmetry properties is Euclidean. So if we want a semblance of Kepler's three laws to hold but also want to leave the Euclidean realm, we are forced out of the realm of Riemannian geometries. The Heisenberg group (a subRiemannian geometry) and lattices provide the simplest examples of metric spaces enjoying a semblance of all three of the Keplerian symmetries. We report success in posing, and solving, the Kepler problem on the Heisenberg group. We report failures in posing the Kepler problem on the rank two lattice and partial success in solving the problem on the integers. We pose a number of questions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2713

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupsub-Riemannian geometryinteger latticeKepler's lawsHamiltonian mechanicstwo-body problemdilations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Two-body problems (70F05) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Lattices and convex bodies in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C05) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12)

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