Symplectic geometry of geometric optics

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Authors Y. Yamamoto

Publication date 22 September 2017

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetismquantizationlinear opticssymplectic geometryHamilton-Jacobi equationHuygens' principlegeometric opticspath integralFermat's principleGaussian opticsHamiltonian opticswave opticsMalus and Dupin's theoremSeidel abberrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Geometric optics (78A05)

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