Degree and class of caustics by reflection for a generic source

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2013.04.019MaRDI QIDQ351382zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alfrederic Josse, Françoise Pène

Publication date 11 July 2013

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1846

zbMATH Keywords

causticplane curvecaustic by reflectioncaustic mapcaustic of a plane curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We are interested in the study of caustics by reflection of irreducible algebraic planar curves (in the complex projective plane). We prove the birationality of the caustic map (for a generic light position). We also give simple formulas for the degree and the class of caustics by reflection valid for any irreducible algebraic curve of degree at least 2 and for a generic light position.

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