Quaternions for regularizing Celestial Mechanics: The right way

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 102, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 149-162

  Waldvogel, Jörg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birkhoff transformation; Joukowsky Birkhoff mapping; Kepler formulas; Kustaanheimo Stiefel transformation; Perturbed Kepler problem; Quaternion algebra; Quaternions; Regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849426680     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-008-9124-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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