The duality between singular points and inflection points on wave fronts

zbMATH Open1209.57020MaRDI QIDQ987175FDOQ987175

Authors Kentaro Saji, Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada

Publication date 13 August 2010

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0649

zbMATH Keywords

inflection pointssingular pointswave fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R35)

Abstract: In the previous paper (arXiv:0804.0701), the authors gave criteria for A_{k+1}-type singularities on wave fronts. Using them, we show in this paper that there is a duality between singular points and inflection points on wave fronts in the projective space. As an application, we show that the algebraic sum of 2-inflection points (i.e. godron points) on an immersed surface in the real projective space is equal to the Euler number of M_-. Here M^2 is a compact orientable 2-manifold, and M_-$is the open subset of M^2 where the Hessian of f takes negative values. This is a generalization of Bleecker and Wilson's formula for immersed surfaces in the affine 3-space.

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