Degree and class of caustics by reflection for a generic source

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2013.04.019zbMATH Open1273.14067arXiv1301.1846OpenAlexW2010611018MaRDI QIDQ351382FDOQ351382

Authors: Alfrederic Josse, Françoise Pène 

Publication date: 11 July 2013

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are interested in the study of caustics by reflection of irreducible algebraic planar curves (in the complex projective plane). We prove the birationality of the caustic map (for a generic light position). We also give simple formulas for the degree and the class of caustics by reflection valid for any irreducible algebraic curve of degree at least 2 and for a generic light position.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1846

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zbMATH Keywords

causticplane curvecaustic by reflectioncaustic mapcaustic of a plane curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

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