On geodesic envelopes

DOI10.1007/S00013-007-1829-8zbMATH Open1125.53033arXivmath/0411430OpenAlexW2023427329WikidataQ125822937 ScholiaQ125822937MaRDI QIDQ2373352FDOQ2373352

Authors: Gianmarco Capitanio 

Publication date: 19 July 2007

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a global description of envelopes of geodesic tangents of regular curves in (not necessarily convex) Riemannian surfaces. We prove that such an envelope is the union of the curve itself, its inflectional geodesics and its tangential caustics (formed by the conjugate points to those of the initial curve along the tangent geodesics). Stable singularities of tangential caustics and geodesic envelopes are discussed. We also prove the (global) stability of tangential caustics of close curves in convex closed surfaces under small deformations of the initial curve and of the ambient metric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411430

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicscausticsenvelope theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global theory of singularities (58K30)

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• On some refraction billiards
• Stable tangential family germs and singularities of their envelopes
• Envelope theory in spectral geometry

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