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Geometry of universal magnification invariants
J. Math. Phys. 50, 082504 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3204970
Published 26 August 2009
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Recent work in gravitational lensing and catastrophe theory has shown that the sum of the signed magnifications of images near folds, cusps, and also higher catastrophes is zero. Here, it is discussed how Lefschetz fixed point theory can be used to interpret this result geometrically for a subfamily of these catastrophes, namely, the generic case of folds, cusps, elliptic and hyperbolic umbilics, swallowtails, and the elliptic and hyperbolic umbilics in gravitational lensing.
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- 95.30.Sf
Relativity and gravitation in astrophysics - 98.62.Sb
Gravitational lenses and luminous arcs - 95.35.+d
Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological) - 98.80.Cq
Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe - 02.40.-k
Geometry, differential geometry, and topology - 04.50.-h
Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity - YEAR: 2009
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