Ray paths and caustics on a slightly oblate ellipsoid

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1990.0035zbMath0711.53005OpenAlexW2023521909MaRDI QIDQ3496862

Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1990.0035

zbMATH Keywords

precisionconjugate locusantipodal pointsoblate ellipsoidal shell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

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