Astrophysical N-body application of L0 spectral theorem and Jordan canonical form. The tidal field around a point mass M — the traceless part of the Hessian of its potential Φ = −GM/r — has eigenstructure that is fixed by the spectral…
Astrophysical N-body application of L0 spectral theorem and Jordan canonical form. The tidal field around a point mass M — the traceless part of the Hessian of its potential Φ = −GM/r — has eigenstructure that is fixed by the spectral…