Geometrical theory of diffracted rays, orbiting and complex rays

DOI10.1134/S1061920806030034zbMATH Open1114.58023arXiv1307.6061OpenAlexW2120626607MaRDI QIDQ871774FDOQ871774

Giovanni Alberto Viano, Enrico De Micheli

Publication date: 26 March 2007

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

Abstract: In this article, the ray tracing method is studied beyond the classical geometrical theory. The trajectories are here regarded as geodesics in a Riemannian manifold, whose metric and topological properties are those induced by the refractive index (or, equivalently, by the potential). First, we derive the geometrical quantization rule, which is relevant to describe the orbiting bound-states observed in molecular physics. Next, we derive properties of the diffracted rays, regarded here as geodesics in a Riemannian manifold with boundary. A particular attention is devoted to the following problems: (i) modification of the classical stationary phase method suited to a neighborhood of a caustic; (ii) derivation of the connection formulae which enable one to obtain the uniformization of the classical eikonal approximation by patching up geodesic segments crossing the axial caustic; (iii) extension of the eikonal equation to mixed hyperbolic-elliptic systems, and generation of complex-valued rays in the shadow of the caustic. By these methods, we can study the creeping waves in diffractive scattering, describe the orbiting resonances present in molecular scattering beside the orbiting bound-states, and, finally, describe the generation of the evanescent waves, which are relevant in the nuclear rainbow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6061

zbMATH Keywords

causticeikonal approximationevanescent wavesclassical stationary phase methodcreeping wavesmolecular scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Molecular physics (81V55)

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