Reflection in a translation invariant surface

DOI10.1007/S11040-007-9013-8MaRDI QIDQ2370082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg

Publication date 21 June 2007

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510493

zbMATH Keywords

focal curvefocal surfacenatural complex structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential line geometry (53A25) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geometric optics (78A05)

Abstract: We prove that the focal set generated by the reflection of a point source off a translation invariant surface consists of two sets: a curve and a surface. The focal curve lies in the plane orthogonal to the symmetry direction containing the source, while the focal surface is translation invariant. This is done by constructing explicitly the focal set of the reflected line congruence (2-parameter family of oriented lines in ${BbbR}^3$) with the aid of the natural complex structure on the space of all oriented affine lines.

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