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Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity Volker Perlick

Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity By Volker Perlick

Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity by Volker Perlick


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Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity by Volker Perlick

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Table of Contents

From Maxwell's equations to ray optics.- to Part I.- Light propagation in linear dielectric and permeable media.- Light propagation in other kinds of media.- A mathematical framework for ray optics.- to Part II.- Ray-optical structures on arbitrary manifolds.- Ray-optical structures on Lorentzian manifolds.- Variational principles for rays.- Applications.

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NLS9783642086168
9783642086168
3642086160
Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity by Volker Perlick
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
2011-05-15
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