Wavefronts and parallels in Euclidean space

DOI10.1017/S030500410006062XzbMath0511.58012OpenAlexW1963709094MaRDI QIDQ4748858

J. W. 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

wavefrontunfoldingMonge normal formgeneric Legendre singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

Cites Work

• Wave front evolution and equivariant Morse lemma

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