A Note on A φ-Hierarchy in Earth’s Degree-2 LOVE Numbers and its Relationship to GEIER’s α–e–Φ–√(π/5) Equations (LOVE Numbers and GEIER’s Equations, Part 1). ResearchGate (2025)
A Note on A φ-Hierarchy in Earth’s Degree-2 LOVE Numbers and its Relationship to GEIER’s α–e–Φ–√(π/5) Equations (LOVE Numbers and GEIER’s Equations, Part 1). ResearchGate Preprint (2025) Geier and colleagues advance an ambitious and unusually integrative hypothesis: that Earth’s degree-2 solid-Earth tidal response admits a compact parametrization in terms of the reciprocal golden ratio φ and the π/5 kernel that underlies it, and that this same geometric scaffold interfaces naturally with a broader α–e–Φ–√(π/5) constant-family proposed in their earlier work. 1 From a geophysical editorial standpoint, the manuscript’s main strength is that it anchors its numerical claims to operational standards and mainstream references rather than to cherry-picked single estimates. In particular, the IERS Conventions (2010) provide the canonical nominal degree-2 Love/Shida numbers used throughout modern geodesy (h₂≈0.6078, l₂≈0.0847; k₂≈0.29525 in the geopotential formulation), and the manuscri...