Presymplectic geometry and Fermat's principle for anisotropic media

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/8/017zbMath0959.78003arXivhep-th/9602037OpenAlexW3103557093WikidataQ125884952 ScholiaQ125884952MaRDI QIDQ4229778

José F. Cariñena, Javier Nasarre

Publication date: 29 April 2001

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9602037

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic structuresHamiltonian formulationFermat principleanisotropic orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Physical optics (78A10) Geometric optics (78A05)

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