Abstract

It is becoming clear that the rapidly growing field of modern mathematics called 'catastrophe theory' has much to offer theoretical physicists in one of the oldest branches of their subject: the study of wave motion. In the limiting case when the wavelength is zero the proper way to describe wave fields is in terms of trajectories (rays in geometrical optics, particle paths in classical mechanics).

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