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Exact Quotients of Fresnel-Kummer Surfaces and Certified Biaxial Refraction

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 19, 2026 · UTC

The Fresnel wave surface governs the propagation of light in a transparent biaxial crystal. It is a special Kummer quartic, and we identify it exactly. Over the complex numbers the wave surface of a crystal is the Kummer surface of the Jacobian of an explicit genus-two curve branched at the signed square roots of the three principal permittivities. This Jacobian is isogenous, by an isogeny with kernel of order four, to a product of two elliptic curves. One elliptic curve carries the three permittivities, and the other carries the optic-axis angle. The physical family is Zariski dense in the lo

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