The topological nature of the polarization field for body waves in anisotropic elastic media
DOI10.1098/rspa.1980.0037zbMath0532.73037MaRDI QIDQ3315122
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Publication date: 1980
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1980.0037
spinors; flags; elastic crystals without acoustic axes; only one type occurs; relation between Khatkevich condition for acoustic axes and discriminant of eigenvalue problem; straight frame fields; twisted frame fields; types of sound wave polarization fields
57R25: Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology
74E10: Anisotropy in solid mechanics
82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals
57S99: Topological transformation groups
74J99: Waves in solid mechanics
51M30: Line geometries and their generalizations
47A70: (Generalized) eigenfunction expansions of linear operators; rigged Hilbert spaces
57T99: Homology and homotopy of topological groups and related structures
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