Gravitational Lensing from a Spacetime Perspective

The theory of gravitational lensing is reviewed from a spacetime perspective, without quasi-Newtonian approximations. More precisely, the review covers all aspects of gravitational lensing where light propagation is described in terms of lightlike geodesics of a metric of Lorentzian signature. It in...

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Main Author: Perlick Volker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2004-09-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
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Online Access:http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2004-9