N-body problem of first-order differential equations, with initial conditions as initial position coordinates and initial momentum values. Symmetries in the -body problem yield global integrals of motion that simplify the problem. Translational symmetry of the problem results in the center of mass moving with constant velocity, so that , where is the linear velocity and is the initial position. The constants of motion and represent six integrals of the motion. Rotational symmetry results in the total angular momentum being constant where × is the cross product. The three components of the total angular momentum yield three more constants of the motion. The
Angular velocity origin: The relation between this linear map and the angular velocity pseudovector formula_74 is the following. Because "W" is the derivative of an orthogonal transformation, the bilinear form is skew-symmetric. Thus we can apply the fact of exterior algebra that there is a unique linear form formula_76 on formula_77 that where formula_79 is the exterior product of formula_80 and formula_81. Taking the sharp "L" of "L" we get Introducing formula_83, as the Hodge dual of "L", and applying the definition of the Hodge dual twice supposing that the preferred unit 3-vector is formula_84 where by definition. Because formula_81 is an