PERTURBED KEPLER PROBLEM IN GENERAL RELATIVITY WITH QUATERNIONS

The motion of binary star systems is re-examined in the presence of perturbations from the theory of general relativity. To handle the singularity of the Kepler problem, the equation of motion is regularized and linearized with quaternions. In this way first-order perturbation results are derived using the quaternion-based approach.

C1 non-integrability of a hydrogen atom in a circularly polarized microwave field

Barrabés et al. [Physica D, 241(4), 333–349, 2012] consider the problem of the hydrogen atom interacting with a circularly polarized microwave field modeled as a planar perturbed Kepler problem. For different values of the parameter, the authors offer some numerical evidence of the non-integrability of this problem. The objective of the present work is to give an analytical proof of the C1 non-integrability of this problem for any value of the parameter using the averaging theory as a main tool.