On projective umbilics: a geometric invariant and an index

DOI10.5427/JSING.2018.17EMaRDI QIDQ4638256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

Publication date 4 May 2018

Published in Journal of Singularitiesl (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01466

zbMATH Keywords

cross-ratiodifferential geometryflecnodal curveindexinvariantparabolic curveprojective umbilicquadratic pointsingularitysurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective differential geometry (53A20) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

Abstract: We define a geometric invariant and an index (+1 or -1) for projective umbilics of smooth surfaces. We prove that the sum of the indices of the projective umbilics inside a connected component H of the hyperbolic domain remains constant in any 1-parameter family of surfaces if the topological type of H does not change. We prove the same statement for any connected component E of the elliptic domain. We give formulas for the invariant and for the index which do not depend on any normal form.

Recommendations

• Characteristic Points, Fundamental Cubic Form and Euler Characteristic of Projective Surfaces
• A Sharp Geometric Estimate for the Index of an Umbilic on a Smooth Surface
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1857910
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4201040
• On the multiplicity of umbilic points

Cites work

• Characteristic Points, Fundamental Cubic Form and Euler Characteristic of Projective Surfaces
• Classification of jets of surfaces in projective 3-space via central projection
• Combinatorics of fronts of Legendrian links and the Arnol'd 4-conjectures
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5166049 (Why is no real title available?)
• Hyperbolic Carathéodory conjecture
• Inflection points on hyperbolic tori of S3
• Remarks on the parabolic curves on surfaces and on the higher-dimensional Möbius-Sturm theory
• Singularities of projections of full intersections
• Singularities of the mutual disposition of a surface and a line
• Special points of surfaces in the three-dimensional projective space
• Tangential singularities
• Topological problems of the theory of asymptotic curves

Cited in

(2)

• A metric property of umbilic points
• Evolving surfaces and evolving implicit differential equations via contact geometry and singularities

This page was built for publication: On projective umbilics: a geometric invariant and an index

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4638256)