Milankovitch equations with spinors [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05929


We investigate the use of spinors to describe the secular evolution of quasi-Keplerian systems. Evaluating their Poisson brackets, we show that the components of a properly-chosen spinor are canonical variables. We illustrate this formalism with a satellite’s motion around an oblate body.

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B. Deme and J. Fouvry
Tue, 13 Dec 22
26/105

Comments: 12 pages, no figures