Contact geometry and wave propagation

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Authors Vładimir I. Arnold

Publication date 1990

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsgeneric singularitiesGivental triadsLagrangian submanifoldLegendre varietieswave propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations and hyperbolic systems (35L99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Geometric optics (78A05)

Review text

This article has already been published in ``Contact geometry and wave propagation, Monographie de L'Enseignement Mathematique 34 (1989; Zbl 0694.53001).

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