Umbilic points on Gaussian random surfaces

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/10/11/009zbMath0445.53002OpenAlexW1975383406MaRDI QIDQ5904539

M. V. Berry, J. H. Hannay

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c8d3d9ac3743749ead7a52144e8daf26d5986134

zbMATH Keywords

umbilic pointfocal surfaceGaussian random surfacesumbilic catastrophes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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