Ray Optics, Fermat’s Principle, and Applications to General Relatively [E-Book] / by Volker Perlick.
This book is about the mathematical theory of light propagation in media on general-relativistic spacetimes. The first part discusses the transition from Maxwell's equations to ray optics. The second part establishes a general mathematical framework for treating ray optics as a theory in its ow...
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Personal Name(s): | Perlick, Volker, author |
Imprint: |
Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
2000
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Physical Description: |
X, 222 p. online resource. |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783540466628 |
DOI: |
10.1007/3-540-46662-2 |
Series Title: |
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Lecture Notes in Physics, Monographs ;
61 |
Subject (LOC): |
- 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.