Phase-space invariants for aggregates of particles: hyperangular momenta and partitions of the classical kinetic energy.

Rigorous definitions are presented for the kinematic angular momentum K of a system of classical particles (a concept dual to the conventional angular momentum J), the angular momentum L(xi) associated with the moments of inertia, and the contributions to the total kinetic energy of the system from various modes of the motion of the particles. Some key properties of these quantities are described-in particular, their invariance under any orthogonal coordinate transformation and the inequalities they are subject to. The main mathematical tool exploited is the singular value decomposition of rectangular matrices and its differentiation with respect to a parameter. The quantities introduced employ as ingredients particle coordinates and momenta, commonly available in classical trajectory studies of chemical reactions and in molecular dynamics simulations, and thus are of prospective use as sensitive and immediately calculated indicators of phase transitions, isomerizations, onsets of chaotic behavior, and other dynamical critical phenomena in classical microaggregates, such as nanoscale clusters.

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