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Appendix E - Canonical transformations and metaplectic transforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2014

E. R. Tracy ,
A. J. Brizard ,
A. S. Richardson  and
A. N. Kaufman
E. R. Tracy
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary, Virginia
A. J. Brizard
Affiliation:
Saint Michael's College, Vermont
A. S. Richardson
Affiliation:
US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
A. N. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Ray Tracing and Beyond
Phase Space Methods in Plasma Wave Theory
 , pp. 453 - 478
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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