Rays, waves and asymptotics

DOI10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14505-4zbMath0393.35002OpenAlexW2054390139MaRDI QIDQ4175896

Joseph B. Keller

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14505-4

zbMATH Keywords

WavesOpticsWave PropagationGibBs LectureLight Rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02) Geometric optics (78A05)

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