Ray optics, Fermat's principle, and applications to general relativity (Record no. 52887)
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| fixed length control field | 01507 a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 200831b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783642086168 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 523.0153 |
| Item number | PER |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Perlick, Volker |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ray optics, Fermat's principle, and applications to general relativity |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Springer, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2000. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Berlin; |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x,220p.; |
| Other physical details | pb.; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | EURO |
| Price amount | 112.14 |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Lecture notes in physics ; 61 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book is about the mathematical theory of light propagation in media on general-relativistic spacetimes. The first part discusses the transition from Maxwell's equations to ray optics. The second part establishes a general mathematical framework for treating ray optics as a theory in its own right, making extensive use of the Hamiltonian formalism. This part also includes a detailed discussion of variational principles (i.e., various versions of Fermat's principle) for light rays in general-relativistic media. Some applications, e.g. to gravitational lensing, are worked out. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of general relativity and some familiarity with differential geometry. Some of the results are published here for the first time, e.g. a general-relativistic version of Fermat's principle for light rays in a medium that has to satisfy some regularity condition only. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General Relativity |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Light |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Transmission |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Maxwell Equations |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 31/08/2020 | Astha | 10054.47 | 523.0153 PER | 029246 | 31/08/2020 | 10054.47 | Books |
