The geometry of the secant caustic of a planar curve

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2021.101797MaRDI QIDQ1979413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wojciech Domitrz, Carmen Romero-Fuster, Michał Zwierzyński

Publication date 2 September 2021

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

convex curverosettesecant causticsecant mapsingularityWigner caustic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

In this paper, the authors have investigated the geometrical properties of the secant caustic of a planar curve. In this respect they analyzed 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, in section 4 of the paper they have investigated in more detail some interesting geometrical properties of the secant caustic of a rosette, which is an interesting example. The paper contains interesting results regarding the theory of planar curves.

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