Periodic orbits for classical particles having complex energy

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.07.051zbMATH Open1252.70032arXiv1102.4822OpenAlexW1995526388MaRDI QIDQ691908FDOQ691908

Carl M. Bender, Uriel I. Morone, Alexander G. Anderson

Publication date: 4 December 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper revisits earlier work on complex classical mechanics in which it was argued that when the energy of a classical particle in an analytic potential is real, the particle trajectories are closed and periodic, but that when the energy is complex, the classical trajectories are open. Here it is shown that there is a discrete set of eigencurves in the complex-energy plane for which the particle trajectories are closed and periodic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4822

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic functionsPT symmetryclassical mechanicsanalyticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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