Torus Construction
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 chao-dyn
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
The maximally compact representation of a regular orbit is in terms of its action-angle variables. Computing the map between a trajectory's Cartesian coordinates and its action-angle variables is called torus construction. This article reviews various approaches to torus construction and their application to galactic dynamics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9906176,
title = {Torus Construction},
author = {Monica Valluri and David Merritt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9906176},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 Latex pages, 4 Postscript figures, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in ASP Conference Series, Vol. 182, Galaxy Dynamics, ed. D. Merritt, J. A. Sellwood and M. Valluri