International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 11 (1988), Issue 4, Pages 805-810
doi:10.1155/S0161171288000973
Time-evolution of a caustic
Department of Engineering Science, Lafayette College, Easton 18042, Pennsylvania, USA
Received 26 March 1987
Copyright © 1988 Nasit Ari and Arthur D. Gorman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The Lagrange manifold formalism is adapted to study the time-evolution of caustics associated with high frequency wave propagation in media with both spatial and temporal inhomogenities.