Bifurcations of wavefronts on \(r\)-corners: semi-local classification (Q390189)

The author investigates notions of stability and genericity of bifurcations of wavefronts generated by \(m\) points of a hypersurface with boundary, a corner, or an \(r\)-corner, in a smooth \(n\)-dimensional manifold. Several notions of stability of so-called \textit{multi-reticular Legendrian unfoldings} are defined and proven to be equivalent to the stabilities of corresponding generating families. The classification of all generic bifurcations of wavefronts is given in the cases \(r=0\), \(n\leq 5\) and \(r=1\), \(n\leq 3\) respectively.