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Non-integrability of Hill's lunar problem
Author(s) -
Fabian Josef Winterberg
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
eth zürich research collection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1572-9478
pISSN - 0923-2958
DOI - 10.3929/ethz-a-004717237
Subject(s) - hamiltonian (control theory) , integrable system , hamiltonian system , mathematics , scaling , mathematical physics , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , superintegrable hamiltonian system , normalization (sociology) , celestial mechanics , covariant hamiltonian field theory , physics , geometry , mathematical optimization , anthropology , sociology
We prove that Hill's lunar problem does not possess a second analytic integral of motion, independent of the Hamiltonian. In order to obtain this result, we avoid the usual normalization in which the angular velocity ω of the rotating reference frame is put equal to unit. We construct an artificial Hamiltonian that includes an arbitrary parameter b and show that this Hamiltonian does not possess an analytic integral of motion for ω in an open interval around zero. Then, by selecting suitable values of ω, b and using the invariance of the Hamiltonian under scaling in the units of length and time, we show that the Hamiltonian of Hill's problem does not possess an integral of motion, analytically continued from the integrable two–body problem in a rotating frame.

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