The Levi-Civita Time Transformation and a Killing Vector for the Kepler Problem

Meccanica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-142

  Vivarelli, Maria Dina ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kepler problem; Killing vector; Orbital mechanics; Regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342881534     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004292916946     Document Type: Article

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