Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
European Physical Journal Plus, cilt.138, sa.3, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
In plane, the caustic by reflection of a curve mirror with respect to a light source is the envelope of the rays, emitted from the light source, after reflection in the mirror. By this definition, a caustic of a curve relative to a point light source is the evolute of the orthotomic of the curve relative to the same point light source. In this paper, we generalize this definition of caustics to the hyperbolic 2-space and to front mirrors that may have singularities, and we investigate caustics of light rays on the hyperbolic 2-space reflected by hyperbolic front mirrors. For this investigation, we first introduce hyperbolic orthotomics of spacelike frontals in the hyperbolic 2-space and investigate properties of these hyperbolic orthotomics. Then, we provide some geometric properties of hyperbolic caustics in terms of hyperbolic orthotomics and front mirrors. Finally, we present local diffeomorphic images of hyperbolic caustics.