Scattering of geodesic fields, I

DOI10.2307/1971170zbMath0399.58011OpenAlexW2321230360MaRDI QIDQ1254760

Herman Gluck, David A. Singer

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1971170

zbMATH Keywords

ScatteringRiemannian ManifoldCut LocusGeodesicInverse ScatteringFolisationGeometric Optics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geometric optics (78A05) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

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