Abstract:
The Jacobi equation along a geodesic with random curvature describes the
light propagation in heterogeneous Universe. Conjugate points on a geodesic
correspond to the images of gravitational lenses. The Jacobi equation is
simulated and statistical distributions of the distances between conjugate
points along geodesics are obtained. Some known theoretical estimates and the
results we obtained are compared.
Keywords:Jacobi equation, distribution of conjugate points, geodesic with random curvature, statistical distributions.