2005/09/30 by Christian Duval, Zalan Horvath, Peter Horvathy · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #math-ph #hep-th #math.MP #math.SG #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2006.07.003
published as J.Geom.Phys. 57 (2007) 925-941 · 33 pages. Two subsections and new references added. To appear in the Journal of Geometry and Physics
arxiv created 2006/07/10 · arxiv updated 2015/06/26
Geometrical optics is extended so as to provide a model for spinning light rays via the coadjoint orbits of the Euclidean group characterized by color and spin. This leads to a theory of ``geometrical spinoptics'' in refractive media. Symplectic scattering yields generalized Snell-Descartes laws that include the recently discovered optical Hall effect.