Caustics of wavefronts in general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/027MaRDI QIDQ4881549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang Hasse, Marcus Kriele, Volker Perlick

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

caustics of light raysgravitational lensingsymplectic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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