The behavior of curvature functions at cusps and inflection points

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2012.04.001MaRDI QIDQ428924zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shohei Shiba, Masaaki Umehara

Publication date 25 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4478

zbMATH Keywords

cuspaffine curvatureinflection point, curves with prescribed curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55)

Abstract: At a 3/2-cusp of a given plane curve $gamma(t)$, both of the Euclidean curvature $kapp{a}_g$ and the affine curvature $kapp{a}_A$ diverge. In this paper, we show that each of $sqrt|s_g|kapp{a}_g$ and $(s_A{)}^{2}kapp{a}_A$ (called the Euclidean and affine normalized curvature, respectively) at a 3/2-cusp is a smooth function of the variable $t$, where $s_g$ (resp. $s_A$) is the Euclidean (resp. affine) arclength parameter of the curve corresponding to the 3/2-cusp $s_g=0$ (resp. $s_A=0$). Moreover, we give a characterization of the behaviour of the curvature functions $kapp{a}_g$ and $kapp{a}_A$ at 3/2-cusps. On the other hand, inflection points are also singular points of curves in affine geometry. We give a similar characterization of affine curvature functions near generic inflection points. As an application, new affine invariants of 3/2-cusps and generic inflection points are given.

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