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

by Volker Perlick

2000 230 pages eng

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 own rig…

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