Milankovitch equations with spinors
Classical Physics
2022-12-13 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.05929,
title = {Milankovitch equations with spinors},
author = {Barnabás Deme and Jean-Baptiste Fouvry},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05929},
year = {2022}
}
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12 pages, no figures