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The linear symmetries of Hill's lunar problem.

Cengiz Aydin
Published in: Archiv der Mathematik. Archives of mathematics. Archives mathematiques (2023)
A symmetry of a Hamiltonian system is a symplectic or anti-symplectic involution which leaves the Hamiltonian invariant. For the planar and spatial Hill lunar problem, four resp. eight linear symmetries are well-known. Algebraically, the planar ones form a Klein four-group Z 2 × Z 2 and the spatial ones form the group Z 2 × Z 2 × Z 2 . We prove that there are no other linear symmetries. Remarkably, in Hill's system the spatial linear symmetries determine already the planar linear symmetries.
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