Whitney umbrellas and swallowtails

DOI10.2140/PJM.2011.252.459zbMATH Open1235.53003arXiv1112.5011OpenAlexW2112186219MaRDI QIDQ657352FDOQ657352

Authors: Takashi Nishimura 

Publication date: 16 January 2012

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the notions of map-germs of pedal unfolding type and normalized Legendrian map-germs; and then we show that the fundamental theorem of calculus provides a natural one to one correspondence between Whitney umbrellas of pedal unfolding type and normalized swallowtails.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5011

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zbMATH Keywords

swallowtailWhitney umbrellanormalized swallowtailpedal unfolding type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Stability theory for manifolds (58K25)

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