Wavefronts, caustic sheets, and caustic surfing in gravitational lensing

DOI10.1063/1.1511790zbMath1060.83510arXivastro-ph/0208135OpenAlexW3100030396MaRDI QIDQ4832811

Arlie O. Petters, Simonetta Frittelli

Publication date: 14 December 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208135

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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Null geodesics and wave front singularities in the Gödel space-time, Examining the Kerr metric through wave fronts of null geodesics, Gravitational lensing from a spacetime perspective

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