Singularities of generic line congruences

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/88348834zbMATH Open1520.53010OpenAlexW3194908168MaRDI QIDQ6046474FDOQ6046474

Authors Marcos Craizer, Ronaldo A. Garcia

Publication date 11 May 2023

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06525

zbMATH Keywords

focal setsbinary differential equationsprincipal directionsridge curveequiaffine vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: Line congruences are $2$-dimensional families of lines in $3$-space. The singularities that appear in generic line congruences are folds, cusps and swallowtails. In this paper we give a geometric description of these singularities. The main tool used is the existence of an equiaffine pair defining a generic line congruence.

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