Book Review: Ray Optics, Fermat's Principle, and Applications to General Relativity. By V. Perlick

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Book ID: 110343720
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 10 KB
Volume: 34
Category: Article
ISSN: 0001-7701
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015998414020

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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 rig