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A principally new treatment of caustics as catastrophes has been a relatively recent proposition, but the significance of this innovation could hardly be overestimated. The new approach has allowed one to classify caustics, to select among them structurally stable species, and to establish a subordinance for caustics of different complexity. It has been the historically first breakthrough to understanding the nature of caustics.
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Kravtsov, Y.A., Orlov, Y.I. (1999). Caustics as Catastrophes. 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_3
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