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The ‘correspondence’ between the real and effective energy levels is illustrated in Fig. 1.1.  At this stage, one needs to define a ‘dictionary’ between the real (relative) two-body dynamics, sum- marized in Eq. (1.3.10), and the effective one-body one, summarized in Eq. (1.3.14). As, on both sides, quantum mechanics tells us that the action variables are quantized in integers (reat = nh, Netr = nerrh, etc.) it is most natural to identify n = nem and € = Cem. One then still needs a rule for relating the two different energies Ey{""° and E «. Ref. [39] proposed to look for a general map between the real energy levels and the effective ones (which, as seen when comparing (1.3.10) and (1.3.14), cannot be directly  identified because they do not include the same rest-mass contribution’), namely

Figure 1 The ‘correspondence’ between the real and effective energy levels is illustrated in Fig. 1.1. At this stage, one needs to define a ‘dictionary’ between the real (relative) two-body dynamics, sum- marized in Eq. (1.3.10), and the effective one-body one, summarized in Eq. (1.3.14). As, on both sides, quantum mechanics tells us that the action variables are quantized in integers (reat = nh, Netr = nerrh, etc.) it is most natural to identify n = nem and € = Cem. One then still needs a rule for relating the two different energies Ey{""° and E «. Ref. [39] proposed to look for a general map between the real energy levels and the effective ones (which, as seen when comparing (1.3.10) and (1.3.14), cannot be directly identified because they do not include the same rest-mass contribution’), namely