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On the Ray-Wavefront Duality
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18 February 2022
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Abstract
We investigate the behavior of the solutions of the ray equation in isotropic media. We discuss local and global transversals and wavefronts and give examples of rays without wavefronts.
Keywords:
geometrical optics
; ray equation
; eikonal equation
; wavefronts
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