Integrable optical geometry

DOI10.1007/BF00398155MaRDI QIDQ1069138zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ivor Robinson, Andrzej Trautman

Publication date 1985

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's field equationsoptical geometryoptical geodesicsoptical group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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