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In Part I we have seen that the fundamental object on which all of ray optics can be based is a dispersion relation, i.e., a characteristic variety in a cotangent bundle. We make this into the general definition of ray optical structures on our arbitrary n-dimensional manifold.
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(2000). Ray-optical structures on arbitrary manifolds. In: Ray Optics, Fermat’s Principle, and Applications to General Relatively. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46662-2_5
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