Huygens' principle and computation of the light trajectory responsible for the gravitational displacement of star images

Apeiron

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-357

  Buenker, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black holes; Gravitational coordinate scaling; Light refraction; Schiffs method; Wave front rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549100869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08436061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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