Counting Zeros of Harmonic Rational Functions and its Application to Gravitational Lensing

DOI10.1093/imrn/rns284zbMath1329.85001arXiv1206.2273OpenAlexW2963941349MaRDI QIDQ3448322

Lyndon L. Ji, Youkow Homma, Roland K. W. Roeder, Pavel M. Bleher

Publication date: 23 October 2015

Published in: International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2273

zbMATH Keywords

general relativitygravitational lensingmany images of the light sourcezeros of harmonic rational functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04)

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