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The author's purpose is to present in this article the evidence of his intuition on the periodic behavior of a charged particle, moving in a magnetic dipole field, that is achieved by adopting the Alfvén's analysis of the motion into the composite of two motions and studying the contribution of these motions into the general behavior of the charged particle, separately.
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Mavraganis, A.G. The periodicity of a charged particle motion in a magnetic dipole field. Astrophys Space Sci 76, 159–166 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00651252
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