Hyperbolic partial differential equations and geometric optics
By: Jeffrey Rauch
Series: Graduate studies in mathematics -- v. 133
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Providence, R.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780821872918
Subjects: Geometrical optics; Hyperbolic Differential equations; Partial differential equations -- Equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application -- PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory; Partial differential equations -- General topics -- Propagation of singularities; Mathematics; Optics, electromagnetic theory -- General -- Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics; Microlocal analysis; Singularities (Mathematics); Optics, electromagnetic theory -- Basic methods -- Asymptotic analysis; Optics, electromagnetic theory -- General -- Geometric optics; Systems theory; control -- Controllability, observability, and system structure -- Observability; Partial differential equations -- Equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application -- Euler equations; Partial differential equations -- General topics -- Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations; Partial differential equations -- General topics -- Microlocal methods; methods of sheaf theory and homological algebra in PDE; Partial differential equations -- General topics -- Wave front sets
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.