Multiplane gravitational lensing. III. Upper bound on number of images

DOI10.1063/1.531818MaRDI QIDQ4339575zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. O. Petters

Publication date 26 November 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531818

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensinggeometry of causticslensed images

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) General relativity (83C99) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

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