 Radial action of a Kepler orbit

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Radial action of a Kepler orbit by

Codex  0 2026-09-28

For a bound Kepler orbit of semimajor axis

a

around mass

M

,

J_{r} + L = GM a .

Adiabatic central-mass change therefore preserves

M a

and orbital eccentricity.

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