Wavefronts and parallels in Euclidean space

DOI10.1017/S030500410006062XzbMATH Open0511.58012OpenAlexW1963709094MaRDI QIDQ4748858FDOQ4748858

Authors: James William Bruce 

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500410006062x

zbMATH Keywords

unfoldingwavefrontMonge normal formgeneric Legendre singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

Cites Work

• Wave front evolution and equivariant Morse lemma

Cited In (12)

• Geometric deformations of curves in the Minkowski plane
• Singularities of parallels to tangent developable surfaces
• An Elementary Approach to Generic Properties of Plane Curves
• The theory of graph-like Legendrian unfoldings and its applications
• Normal and tangent maps to frontals
• Curves in the Minkowski plane and their contact with pseudo-circles
• Spacelike parallels and evolutes in Minkowski pseudo-spheres
• Growth, motion and 1-parameter families of symmetry sets
• Singularities of Anti de Sitter torus Gauss maps
• Wave maps and constant curvature surfaces: singularities and bifurcations
• Families of spherical surfaces and harmonic maps
• Generic isotopies of space curves

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