A general canonical transformation increasing the number of variables with application to the two-body problem

In this paper, we present a canonical transformation that extends the change of coordinates of Cartesian type into the associate homogeneous coordinates, and provides a redundant set of eight canonical variables to describe the orbital motion of a particle. The transformed problem has two additional integrals, since the transformation increases the number of variables. Using these variables and a time proportional to the true anomaly, the Kepler problem can be reduced to a 4-dimensional oscillator, whose frequency can be selected to be either the magnitude of the angular momentum or unity, depending on a suitable scaling.