On binary differential equations and umbilics

DOI10.1017/S0308210500025087zbMath0685.34004MaRDI QIDQ4735414

J. W. Bruce, D. L. Fidal

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

flow fieldsbivalued direction fieldsblowing-up constructionmonochromatic-electromagnetic radiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05)

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