skewon
nounEtymology From skew + -on.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A theoretical particle related to the axion and dilaton
- The identity of Fresnel and Kummer surfaces, which holds true for media with a certain symmetry (zero skewon piece), provides an elegant interpretation of the results.2015, Alberto Favaro, Friedrich W. Hehl, “Light propagation in local and linear media: Fresnel-Kummer wave surfaces with 16 singular points”, in arXiv: