Critical points of higher order for the normal map of immersions in R^d

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.09.029MaRDI QIDQ664672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. G. Monera, S. M. Moraes, Angel Montesinos Amilibia, Esther Sanabria-Codesal

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.2011.09.029

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsellipse of curvaturefocal setnormal mapstrong principal directionsVeronese of curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometries with differentiable structure (51H25) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Review text

Let \(M\) denote a \(k\)-dimensional differentiable manifold immersed in \(\mathbb{R}^{k+n}\). The authors describe the image of the critical points of the normal map \(\nu :NM\to \mathbb{R}^{k+n}\) and its relation to a natural generalization of the ellipse of curvature. After defining the \(r\)-critical points of a smooth map between manifolds, they characterize the 2 and 3-critical points of the normal map, with particular detail in the case of 2-critical points of surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^{4}\).

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