Focusing and twinkling: critical exponents from catastrophes in non-Gaussian random short waves

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/10/12/015zbMath0382.58008OpenAlexW2017836407MaRDI QIDQ4160118

M. V. Berry

Publication date: 1977

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/10/12/015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Catastrophe theory (58K35)

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