Caustics of wavefronts in general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/027zbMath0855.53040OpenAlexW2067091167WikidataQ62005963 ScholiaQ62005963MaRDI QIDQ4881549

Volker Perlick, Marcus Kriele, Wolfgang Hasse

Publication date: 4 August 1996

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/027

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometrygravitational lensingcaustics of light rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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