Orbit volume in an axisymmetric Stäckel potential
ID: orbit-volume-in-an-axisymmetric-stackel-potential
For fixed , separated motion obeys . Allowed intervals are where this is nonnegative, with turning points and coordinate-fold endpoints treated separately. A generic nonresonant bound orbit with circulates azimuthally and densely samples a projected volume bounded by confocal spheroids and hyperboloids. It is not uniformly distributed in volume. Resonant or zero-angular-momentum orbits can project to lower-dimensional regions; integrability alone does not imply that every orbit fills a three-dimensional shell.
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