Contact with circles and Euclidean invariants of smooth surfaces in R^3

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAB058zbMATH Open1504.53006arXiv2108.13282OpenAlexW4225317502WikidataQ114090168 ScholiaQ114090168MaRDI QIDQ5866486FDOQ5866486

Authors: Graham M. Reeve, Ricardo Uribe-Vargas, Peter J. Giblin 

Publication date: 22 September 2022

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the vertex curve, that is the set of points in the hyperbolic region of a smooth surface in real 3-space at which there is a circle in the tangent plane having at least 5-point contact with the surface. The vertex curve is related to the differential geometry of planar sections of the surface parallel to and close to the tangent planes, and to the symmetry sets of isophote curves, that is level sets of intensity in a 2-dimensional image. We investigate also the relationship of the vertex curve with the parabolic and flecnodal curves, and the evolution of the vertex curve in a generic 1-parameter family of smooth surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13282

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zbMATH Keywords

parabolic curvesflecnodal curvessymmetry sets of isophote curvesvertex curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55)

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