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Torus Construction

Monica Valluri, David Merritt

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9906176

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.

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