Putting the results of §§2.1-2.3 together,
we can derive the Laplace transform of
and using
equations (5)--(8) to get the
distribution function of the dressed particle.
First, for a particular spherical harmonic, the action-angle transform
of
is

where
is a some general well-behaved function of time.
The quantity
is shorthand for W with
. Because the motion of a star on a regular orbit
is quasi-periodic, we will consider terms
with pure
sinusoidal dependence:
.
Substituting this into equation (9) and Laplace
transforming gives the desired result:
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where the Laplace transform of
is
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