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A multi-particle regularisation technique

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Certain features of a practical regularisation method, in which the potential or kinetic energy is used as a time-regularising function, are described. For two-body encounters the method is less powerful than Kustaanheimo-Stiefel regularisation, but it has wider applicability.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge

    D. C. Heggie

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This work was carried out during tenure by the author of a Studentship from the U. K. Science Research Council.

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Heggie, D.C. A multi-particle regularisation technique. Astrophys Space Sci 14, 35–39 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649192

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