On isotropic submanifolds and evolution of quasicaustics (Q1314977)

In previous work the author has studied coisotropic submanifolds and their generating families [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Phys. Théor. 56, No. 4, 429-441 (1992)]. In this paper the author applies the generating family approach to isotropic submanifolds. Recall that \(I\) is an isotropic submanifold of \((T^*M, \omega_ M)\) if \(i : I \to T^* M\) is an immersion and \(i^* \omega_ M = 0\). The quasicaustic of \(I\) is the image \(\pi_ M(I)\), where \(\pi_ M : T^ x M \to M\). From the introduction: ``In \S 1 we introduce the notion of \(I\)-Morse family generating an isotropic submanifold \(I\) and show geometric examples where isotropic submanifolds and their generating families appear naturally. In \S 2 we describe the general singularity theory machinery that can be used to classify isotropic submanifolds and their quasicaustics... In \S 3, [we give] the complete classification of generic evolutions of quasicaustic that can occur if \(\dim M < 4\)''.