{"title":"On the spherical geopotential approximation for Saturn","authors":"Susanna V. Haziot","doi":"10.3934/cpaa.2022035","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we show by means of a diffeomorphism that when approximating the planet Saturn by a sphere, the errors associated with the spherical geopotential approximation are so significant that this approach is rendered unsuitable for any rigorous mathematical analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":435074,"journal":{"name":"Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3934/cpaa.2022035","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper, we show by means of a diffeomorphism that when approximating the planet Saturn by a sphere, the errors associated with the spherical geopotential approximation are so significant that this approach is rendered unsuitable for any rigorous mathematical analysis.