Geometry of curves and surfaces through the contact map

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.09.021MaRDI QIDQ664656zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter J. Giblin, Stanisław Janeczko

Publication date 2 March 2012

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2011.09.021

zbMATH Keywords

center symmetry setcontact of manifoldreflexion through a pointsurface in 4-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Review text

Mainly, the authors give a new approach to the study of affine equidistant and centre symmetric sets via a family of maps for surfaces in affine space \(\mathbb R^3\) and also for surfaces in affine space \(\mathbb R^4\).

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Cited in

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• Curvature, tangentiality, and controlled topology
• Theory of contact for geometric continuity of parametric curves
• Contact geometry and complex surfaces
• Singularities of affine equidistants: extrinsic geometry of surfaces in 4-space
• Singularities of equidistants and global centre symmetry sets of Lagrangian submanifolds
• Singularities of affine equidistants: projections and contacts
• The Wigner caustic on shell and singularities of odd functions
• On geometry of the midlocus associated to a smooth curve in plane and space
• Reflexion maps and geometry of surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^4\)
• Singularities of the affine chord envelope for two surfaces in four-space
• Kinematische Berührung im Äquiaffinen. (Kinematical contact in the equiaffine)
• Christiaan Huygens and contact geometry

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