Polarized light transfer above a reflecting surface

DOI10.1002/mma.1670080121zbMath0612.45005OpenAlexW2164626301MaRDI QIDQ3752894

Cornelis V. M. van der Mee

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.1670080121

zbMATH Keywords

spectral radiusradiative transfertransport theorylinear transportphase matrixground reflection matrixintegrodifferential transfer equationpolarized light in a homogeneous atmosphere of finite optical thickness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

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Reflection and transmission of polarized light: The adding method for homogeneous atmospheres ⋮ Structure of matrices transforming Stokes parameters ⋮ Relations for the elements of matrices appearing in polarized light scattering ⋮ Stability of stationary transport equations with accretive collision operators

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