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Anisotropic Wavefronts and Laguerre Geometry

Differential Geometry 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the study of wave fronts in anisotropic media, we propose an incidence geometry of anisotropic spheres in a Finsler-Minkowski space. An anisotropic version of the Laguerre functional is considered. In some circumstances, this functional can be used to determine that two wavefronts observed at distinct times in a homogeneous, anisotropic medium, do not originate from the same source.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0034,
  title  = {Anisotropic Wavefronts and Laguerre Geometry},
  author = {Bennett Palmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0034},
  year   = {2015}
}
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