Abstract
A ‘‘fictitious’’ time parameter for the two-body Coulomb problem has recently been used to perform the sum over classical paths in the Feynman form of the path integral, as well as to formulate related coherent-state wave functions. It is pointed out that this time variable is actually the eccentric anomaly of the corresponding classical orbit, which has a known significance in terms of the orbit parameters.

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