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The hydrogen atom as a projection of an homogeneous space

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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The Kustaanheimo-Stiefel transformation as applied to the nonrelativistic hydrogen atom provides one of the rare examples of a free particle moving on a four-dimensional homogeneous space.

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  1. Laboratorio de Física Teórica, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, C.C. No. 67 (1900), La Plata, Republica Argentina

    Horacio Grinberg, Julio Marañon & Hector Vucetich

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Grinberg, H., Marañon, J. & Vucetich, H. The hydrogen atom as a projection of an homogeneous space. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 20, 147–149 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01573217

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