Bounds on number of cusps due to point mass gravitational lenses.

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Jun 1996

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Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 37, No. 6, p. 2920 - 2933

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Mathematical Physics

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Gravitational Lenses: Models

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Generic caustics in gravitational lensing occur locally either as folds or cusps. This paper rigorously proves that the total number of cusps, Ncusps, due to g point masses on a single plane having non-normalized external shear γ > 0 and continuous matter with constant density σc, is bounded as follows: 0 ≤ Ncusps≤ 12 g2. For vanishing shear γ = 0 we obtain the result 0 ≤ Ncusps≤ 12 g (g-1). Consequences of these bounds for the global geometry of caustics are discussed. It is also shown that if γ ≥ 0 and σc is sufficiently large, then all cusps can be eliminated, that is, Ncusps= 0. The paper also includes equations for calculating all the bi-caustics (i.e., curves yielding the positions of cusps during a one-parameter evolution) of a single point-mass lens with continuous matter and shear. The methods of the paper are based on a new approach to point-mass gravitational lensing using complex quantities and the theory of resultants.

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