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Caustics Revisited

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Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields

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The physical properties of a wave-propagating medium are often described by more complex wave-motion equations than Helmholtz’s equation or dispersion- less Maxwell’s equations. Nevertheless manageable asymptotic solutions can be obtained for caustics in dispersive and anisotropic media, in nonlinear and random media and for related problems of quantum mechanics.

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Profsoyyznaya 84/32, 117810, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. A. Kravtsov

  2. Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. I. Orlov

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Kravtsov, Y.A., Orlov, Y.I. (1999). Caustics Revisited. In: Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59887-6_10

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