Caustics in geometrical optics

DOI10.1007/BF01078474zbMath0622.58004OpenAlexW2086261276MaRDI QIDQ1090996

Yu. V. Chekanov

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Functional Analysis and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01078474

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian fibrationLagrangian singularitybifurcation of optical causticslayerwise convex hypersurfaceray manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Geometric optics (78A05)

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Umbilical characteristic number of Lagrangian mappings of a 3-dimensional pseudooptical manifold ⋮ Generalized Luneburg canonical varieties and vector fields on quasicaustics ⋮ Lagrangian singularities of invariant tori of Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom ⋮ Singularities of Lagrangian varieties and related topics ⋮ Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and Lagrangian distributions ⋮ Ensembles of Singularities Generated by Surfaces with Polyhedral Symmetry ⋮ Ensembles of Singularities Generated by Surfaces with Polyhedral Symmetry

Cites Work

• Caustics and non-degenerate Hamiltonians
• Wave front evolution and equivariant Morse lemma

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