Perestroikas of optical wave fronts and graphlike Legendrian unfoldings

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214454479zbMath0781.57016WikidataQ115180063 ScholiaQ115180063MaRDI QIDQ1312136

Shyuichi Izumiya

Publication date: 13 February 1994

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214454479

zbMATH Keywords

Legendrian singularities; generic perestroikas; graphlike Legendrian unfoldings; parallels of given smooth hypersurfaces in Euclidean space; parallels of hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold; perestroikas of wave front sets; realization problem of the perestroikas of Legendrian singularities; stable perestroikas; submersive generating function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

57R45: Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology

58K99: Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory

58C25: Differentiable maps on manifolds

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