Jacobi integral of a rigidly rotating potential

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For with constant pattern angular velocity , ordinary specific energy satisfies and specific axial angular momentum satisfies . Their combination is conserved. This is the rotating-frame integral of motion; in the circular restricted three-body problem, the usual Jacobi constant is an affine rescaling of it. Thus time dependence in an inertial frame does not alone imply the absence of all integrals.

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