Coherent tangent bundles and Gauss-Bonnet formulas for wave fronts

DOI10.1007/S12220-010-9193-5zbMATH Open1276.57032arXiv0910.3456OpenAlexW1973259578MaRDI QIDQ692145FDOQ692145

Kentaro Saji, Kotaro Yamada, Masaaki Umehara

Publication date: 4 December 2012

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a definition of `coherent tangent bundles', which is an intrinsic formulation of wave fronts. In our application of coherent tangent bundles for wave fronts, the first fundamental forms and the third fundamental forms are considered as induced metrics of certain homomorphisms between vector bundles. They satisfy the completely same conditions, and so can reverse roles with each other. For a given wave front of a 2-manifold, there are two Gauss-Bonnet formulas. By exchanging the roles of the fundamental forms, we get two new additional Gauss-Bonnet formulas for the third fundamental form. Surprisingly, these are different from those for the first fundamental form, and using these four formulas, we get several new results on the topology and geometry of wave fronts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3456

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zbMATH Keywords

wave frontvector bundleGauss-Bonnet formulathird fundamental form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

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