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

hyperbolic geometryconic sectionsvelocity vectorstereographic projectionsgeometrical properties of Kepler orbitsnondegenerate Kepler orbitRiemannian metric of constant curvaturevelocity circle geodesics

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)

Cited in

(21)

• Conformal geometry of the Kepler orbit space
• On Fock transform and Moser regularization map
• Spheres, Kähler geometry and the Hunter-Saxton system
• The classical Kepler problem and geodesic motion on spaces of constant curvature
• Conformal geometry of timelike curves in the \((1 + 2)\)-Einstein universe
• Newton's solution of the one-body problem
• Regularization of Kepler problem in \(\kappa\)-spacetime
• Classical and quantum space splitting: the one-dimensional hydrogen atom
• Jacobi-Maupertuis metric and Kepler equation
• Collision trajectories and regularisation of two-body problem on \(S^2\)
• On the connection among three classical mechanical problems via the hypercomplex KS-transformation
• Noncommutative Kepler dynamics: symmetry groups and bi-Hamiltonian structures
• Teaching the Kepler laws for freshmen
• The Kepler problem: A unifying view
• Huygens triviality of the time-independent Schrödinger equation. Applications to atomic and high energy physics
• Are Hamiltonian flows geodesic flows?
• Periodic solutions for a prescribed-energy problem of singular Hamiltonian systems
• The fine structure of Weber's hydrogen atom: Bohr-Sommerfeld approach
• Kepler's laws and conic sections
• Normalization through invariants in \(n\)-dimensional Kepler problems
• The KS-transformation revisited

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