scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4143493

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Authors Colin McGill, James Binney

Publication date 1990

zbMATH Keywords

action-angle torigeneral gravitational systemHamilton-Jacobi formulationnumerical method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Statics (70C20) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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• Developments in determining the gravitational potential using toroidal functions
• Toroidal metrics: gravitational solenoids and static shells
• Special Features of Galactic Dynamics
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