Bifurcations of umbilic points and related principal cycles (Q1768352)

The paper is motivated by the theory of first order structural stability of vector fields that was initiated by \textit{A. A. Andronov} and \textit{E. A. Leontovich} [Theory of bifurcations of dynamical systems on a plane, ITPS, Jerusalem (1971); translation from Moscow: Nauka (1967; Zbl 0257.34001)] and further developed by the second author on manifolds in [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 43, 5--46 (1973; Zbl 0279.58008)], where transversality of Banach submanifolds is used. A study of quantitative changes of bifurcations on principal configurations, under small perturbations on the immersion, which violates in a minimal fashion the Darboux structural stability condition on umbilic points, is performed. Precise definitions and bifurcation analysis of umbilic patterns are given. Global implications on bifurcations of principal cycles, such as the appearance and the annihilation of periodic principal lines are also studied.