Integrable optical geometry

DOI10.1007/BF00398155zbMath0583.53030MaRDI QIDQ1069138

Ivor Robinson, Andrzej Trautman

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's field equationsoptical geometryoptical geodesicsoptical group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) (G)-structures (53C10)

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