Bounds on number of cusps due to point mass gravitational lenses

DOI10.1063/1.531630zbMath0868.58016OpenAlexW2016830014MaRDI QIDQ5284251

Arlie O. Petters, Hans J. Witt

Publication date: 21 August 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531630

zbMATH Keywords

Newtonian approximationsheargravitational lensestotal number of cusps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

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Multiplane gravitational lenses with an abundance of images ⋮ How constant shifts affect the zeros of certain rational harmonic functions ⋮ Multiplane gravitational lensing. III. Upper bound on number of images ⋮ Signs of the cusps in binary lenses ⋮ Curvature of caustics and singularities of gravitational lenses ⋮ Sharp parameter bounds for certain maximal point lenses ⋮ Fixed points due to gravitational lenses

Uses Software

• Mathematica

Cites Work

• Elimination of cusps
• Arnold’s singularity theory and gravitational lensing
• Singularities of the one- and two-point mass gravitational lens
• Applications of singularity theory to gravitational lensing. I. Multiple lens planes
• Multiplane gravitational lensing. II. Global geometry of caustics
• ON SINGULARITIES OF FOLDING TYPE

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