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An intimate relationship between Moser's regularization [1] and the KS-regularization [3] of the 3-dimensional Kepler problem is established. Explicit formulae linking Moser's and the KS-transformation are obtained in the case of negative as well as in the case of positive energies. As a side result it is shown that the KS-transformation owes its existence to the local isomorphism of SO(2,4) and SU(2,2).
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Kummer, M. On the regularization of the Kepler problem. Commun.Math. Phys. 84, 133–152 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01208375
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