On singularities, envelopes and elementary differential geometry

DOI10.1017/S0305004100057935zbMath0454.58002WikidataQ115336109 ScholiaQ115336109MaRDI QIDQ3902203

J. W. Bruce

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

versal unfoldingscusp singularity foldsgeneric envelope of a family of hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) General convexity (52A99)

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Generic space curves and secants ⋮ The rectifying developable and the tangent indicatrix of a curve in Galilean 3-space ⋮ Growth, motion and 1-parameter families of symmetry sets ⋮ Spherical orthotomic and spherical antiothotomic ⋮ Singularities of tangent lightcone map of a timelike surface in Minkowski 4-space ⋮ Generic affine differential geometry of space curves ⋮ Generic affine differential geometry of plane curves ⋮ The duals of generic space curves and complete intersections ⋮ On the determination of a developable spherical orthotomic ruled surface ⋮ Global stability for diagrams of differentiable applications

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