Isometric deformations of cuspidal edges

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1458248863zbMATH Open1350.57031arXiv1408.4243OpenAlexW2963860206MaRDI QIDQ286720FDOQ286720

Authors: Kosuke Naokawa, Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada 

Publication date: 25 May 2016

Published in: Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Along cuspidal edge singularities on a given surface in Euclidean 3-space, which can be parametrized by a regular space curve, a unit normal vector field $u$ is well-defined as a smooth vector field of the surface. A cuspidal edge singular point is called generic if the osculating plane of the cuspidal edge (as a regular space curve) is not orthogonal to $u$. This genericity is equivalent to the condition that its limiting normal curvature $kapp{a}_u$ takes a non-zero value. In this paper, we show that a given generic (real analytic) cuspidal edge can be isometrically deformed preserving $kapp{a}_u$ into a cuspidal edge whose singular set lies in a plane. Such a limiting cuspidal edge is uniquely determined from the initial germ of the cuspidal edge.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4243

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zbMATH Keywords

cuspidal edgeisometric deformationsingular curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

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