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Special issue: In honor of Valery Kozlov for his 70th birthday
Two Variations on the Periscope Theorem
Serge Tabachnikov Department of Mathematics, Penn State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Abstract:
A (multidimensional) spherical periscope is a system of two ideal mirrors that reflect every ray of light emanating from some point back to this point. A spherical periscope defines a local diffeomorphism of the space of rays through this point, and we describe such diffeomorphisms. We also solve a similar problem for (multidimensional) reversed periscopes, the systems of two mirrors that reverse the direction of a parallel beam of light.
Keywords:
periscope, optical reflection, projectively gradient vector field.
Received: 22.08.2019 Accepted: 24.12.2019
Citation:
Serge Tabachnikov, “Two Variations on the Periscope Theorem”, Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 25:1 (2020), 11–17
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