Anisotropic wavefronts and Laguerre geometry

DOI10.1063/1.4907215zbMATH Open1312.35003arXiv1404.0034OpenAlexW2014793938MaRDI QIDQ5178178FDOQ5178178

Authors: Bennett Palmer 

Publication date: 13 March 2015

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

Abstract: Motivated by the study of wave fronts in anisotropic media, we propose an incidence geometry of anisotropic spheres in a Finsler-Minkowski space. An anisotropic version of the Laguerre functional is considered. In some circumstances, this functional can be used to determine that two wavefronts observed at distinct times in a homogeneous, anisotropic medium, do not originate from the same source.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0034

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zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic mediaincidence geometryLaguerre functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave front sets in context of PDEs (35A18)

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