Presymplectic geometry and Fermat's principle for anisotropic media
- 21 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 29 (8) , 1695-1702
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/29/8/017
Abstract
The tools of presymplectic geometry are used to study light-ray trajectories in anisotropic media.Keywords
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