On the Geometry of the Kepler Problem

DOI10.2307/2975570MaRDI QIDQ3667982zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Milnor

Publication date 1983

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2975570

zbMATH Keywords

conic sectionsgeometrical properties of Kepler orbitshyperbolic geometrynondegenerate Kepler orbitRiemannian metric of constant curvaturestereographic projectionsvelocity circle geodesicsvelocity vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Two-body problems (70F05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

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• Noncommutative Kepler dynamics: symmetry groups and bi-Hamiltonian structures
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• Conformal geometry of timelike curves in the (1 + 2)-Einstein universe
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• Regularization of Kepler problem in -spacetime
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• Classical and quantum space splitting: the one-dimensional hydrogen atom
• Collision trajectories and regularisation of two-body problem on \(S^2\)
• On Fock transform and Moser regularization map
• Circle foliations by geodesics revisited: periods of flows whose orbits are all closed
• Moser regularization of a stochastically perturbed Kepler problem
• Block regularisation of the logarithm central force problem
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