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The optico-mechanical analogy: An axiomatic approach
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An axiomatization of a ‘two-level Hamiltonian structure’ is proposed, which expresses the optico-mechanical analogy by representing optics and mechanics as different classes of models satisfying the axioms.Author's Profile
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