Phase-space projection identities for diffraction catastrophes

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/13/1/016zbMath0422.58011OpenAlexW2017128954MaRDI QIDQ3855854

M. V. Berry, Francis John Wright

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8f6337caf24345f3023db60bd9aae189a999a804

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functionsdiffraction catastrophe wavefunctionstable caustic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Catastrophe theory (58K35)

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