Stäckel potentials and the relevance of the spheroidal coordinates

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/14/311zbMath0962.70018OpenAlexW2045240463MaRDI QIDQ4507644

Giovanni Preti, Fernando de Felice

Publication date: 8 October 2000

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/33/14/311

zbMATH Keywords

spheroidal coordinatesthird integral of motionaxisymmetric gravitational fieldsStäckel potential fieldtorque effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

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