Ways of determining the optical point characteristic, defined on static space-times, are considered, and applied explicitly to the de Sitter universe, the Einstein universe and the Schwarzschild exterior field. In this process the Maxwell fish-eye appears repeatedly.
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H. A. Buchdahl (1970) studied this question.
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