Wave propagation and Thom's theorem
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Publication:3923304
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/14/7/009zbMath0469.58018MaRDI QIDQ3923304
Arthur D. Gorman, Gordon N. Fleming, Robert Wells
Publication date: 1981
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/14/7/009
Lagrange manifold; asymptotic solution of the Helmholtz equation near caustics for scalar waves propagated from a finite source in an inhomogeneous medium; Maslov integral representation
35L05: Wave equation
58J90: Applications of PDEs on manifolds
58J45: Hyperbolic equations on manifolds
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