Renormalization group symmetries in problems of nonlinear geometrical optics

We construct renormalization group symmetries in the geometrical optics approximation for the boundary value problem of the system of equations describing the propagation of strong radiation in a nonlinear medium. Using the renormalization group symmetries, new exact and approximate analytic solutions to the equations of nonlinear geometrical optics are obtained. Explicit analytic expressions are presented that characterize the spatial evolution of a laser beam having an arbitrary dependence on intensity at the nonlinear medium boundary. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 111, No. 3, pp. 369–388, June, 1997.