Quaternions and the perturbed Kepler problem

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 95, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 201-212

  Waldvogel, Jörg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birkhoff transformation; Kustaanheimo Stiefel regularization; Perturbed Kepler problem; Quaternions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749356512     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-005-5663-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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