Contact geometry and wave propagation
zbMATH Open0715.53002MaRDI QIDQ752483FDOQ752483
Authors: Vładimir I. Arnold 
Publication date: 1990
Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)
contact manifoldswave propagationLagrangian submanifoldgeneric singularitiesGivental triadsLegendre varieties
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Hyperbolic equations and hyperbolic systems (35L99) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Geometric optics (78A05)
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