The geometry of the secant caustic of a planar curve

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2021.101797zbMATH Open1482.53005arXiv1803.00084OpenAlexW3183511259WikidataQ115354512 ScholiaQ115354512MaRDI QIDQ1979413FDOQ1979413

Michał Zwierzyński, Wojciech Domitrz, Carmen Romero-Fuster

Publication date: 2 September 2021

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The secant caustic of a planar curve $M$ is the image of the singular set of the secant map of $M$. We analyse the geometrical properties of the secant caustic of a planar curve, i.e. the number of branches of the secant caustic, the parity of the number of cusps and the number of inflexion points in each branch of this set. In particular, we investigate in detail some of the geometrical properties of the secant caustic of a rosette, i.e. a smooth regular oriented closed curve with non-vanishing curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00084

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zbMATH Keywords

singularityconvex curveWigner causticrosettesecant causticsecant map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

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