Geometric algebra and singularities of ruled and developable surfaces

DOI10.5427/JSING.2020.21OMaRDI QIDQ5109584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Junki Tanaka, Toru Ohmoto

Publication date 12 May 2020

Published in Journal of Singularitiesl (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10587

zbMATH Keywords

singular ruled surface, dual torsion, dual quaternions,

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Differential line geometry (53A25) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Classification; finite determinacy of map germs (58K40)

Abstract: Any ruled surface in Euclidean 3-space is described as a curve of unit dual vectors in the algebra of dual quaternions (=the even Clifford algebra of type (0,3,1)). Combining this classical framework and Singularity Theory, we characterize local diffeomorphic types of singular ruled surfaces in terms of geometric invariants. In particular, using a theorem of G. Ishikawa, we show that local topological type of singular (non-cylindrical) developable surfaces is completely determined by vanishing order of the dual torsion, that generalizes an old result of D. Mond for tangent developables of non-singular space curves. Our approach would be useful for analysis on singularities arising in differential line geometry related with several applications such as robotics, vision theory and architectural geometry.

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