Contact geometry and wave propagation

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Authors Vładimir I. Arnold

Publication date 1990

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldswave propagationLagrangian submanifoldgeneric singularitiesGivental triadsLegendre varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

Cited in

(5)

• A brief history of contact geometry and topology.
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 44571 (Why is no real title available?)
• Examples of the influence of the geometry on the propagation of progressive waves
• Huygens triviality of the time-independent Schrödinger equation. Applications to atomic and high energy physics
• Aubry-Mather theory for contact Hamiltonian systems

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