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UNINA9910257433803321 |
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Autore |
Perlick Volker |
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Titolo |
Ray Optics, Fermat’s Principle, and Applications to General Relativity / / by Volker Perlick |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2000.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 222 p.) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs ; ; 61 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electrodynamics |
Mathematics |
Astrophysics |
Gravitation |
Mathematical physics |
Magnetism |
Classical Electrodynamics |
Applications of Mathematics |
Classical and Quantum Gravity |
Mathematical Methods in Physics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 right, making extensive use of the Hamiltonian formalism. This part also includes a detailed discussion of variational principles (i.e., various versions of Fermat's principle) for light rays in |
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