Evolution of singularities of potential flows in collision-free media and the metamorphosis of caustics in three-dimensional space

DOI10.1007/BF01106069zbMATH Open0583.58019OpenAlexW2075056424MaRDI QIDQ1069196FDOQ1069196

Vładimir I. Arnold

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Soviet Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01106069

zbMATH Keywords

classification of causticscritical points of surfacesLagrangian mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

Cites Work

• Wave front evolution and equivariant Morse lemma
• Analytic classification of germs of conformal mappings \((C,O) \to (C,O)\) with identity linear part

Cited In (5)

• Arnold’s singularity theory and gravitational lensing
• A universal magnification theorem. II. Generic caustics up to codimension five
• A universal magnification theorem for higher-order caustic singularities
• Mathematics of gravitational lensing: Multiple imaging and magnification
• Wavefronts, caustic sheets, and caustic surfing in gravitational lensing

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