MICZ-Kepler: Dynamics on the Cone over SO(n)
2013, Volume 18, Number 6, pp. 600-607
Author(s): Montgomery R.
Author(s): Montgomery R.
We show that the n-dimensional MICZ-Kepler system arises from symplectic reduction of the "Kepler problem" on the cone over the rotation group SO(n). As a corollary we derive an elementary formula for the general solution of the MICZ-Kepler problem. The heart of the computation is the observation that the additional MICZ-Kepler potential, |ϕ|2/r2, agrees with the rotational part of the cone’s kinetic energy.
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