Mass-weighted symplectic forms for the N-body problem

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 187-199

  Varadi, F ^a   Ghil, M ^a,b   Kaula, W M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian formalism; N body problem; Perturbation theory; Symplectic form; Symplectic mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011058056     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008374927645     Document Type: Article

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