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View SchemaKinematic Orbits and the Structure of the Internal Space for Systems of Five or More Bodies
| Authors | Kevin A. Mitchell, Robert G. Littlejohn |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/9910001 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9910001 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/33/7/309 |
Abstract
The internal space for a molecule, atom, or other n-body system can be conveniently parameterised by 3n-9 kinematic angles and three kinematic invariants. For a fixed set of kinematic invariants, the kinematic angles parameterise a subspace, called a kinematic orbit, of the n-body internal space. Building on an earlier analysis of the three- and four-body problems, we derive the form of these kinematic orbits (that is, their topology) for the general n-body problem. The case n=5 is studied in detail, along with the previously studied cases n=3,4.
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