Return of the plane evolute

DOI10.5802/AIF.3703MaRDI QIDQ6946805zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ragni Piene, Cordian Riener, Boris Shapiro

Publication date 5 August 2025

Published in Annales de l'Institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5802/AIF.3703

zbMATH Keywords

evoluteplane real algebraic curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

Review text

The evolute of a curve in the Euclidean plane is the locus of its centers of curvature. E.g. the evolutes of a parabola and an ellipse are a semi-cubic parabola and an astroid.\N\NThe authors consider the evolutes of plane real-algebraic curves and discuss some of their complex and real-algebraic properties. For a given degree \(d\geq 2\), they provide lower bounds for the following four numerical invariants:\N\N(1) the maximal number of times a real line can intersect the evolute of a real-algebraic curve of degree \(d\);\N\N(2) the maximal number of real cusps which can occur on the evolute of a real-algebraic curve of degree \(d\);\N\N(3) the maximal number of crunodes which can occur on the dual curve to the evolute of a real-algebraic curve of degree \(d\);\N\N(4) the maximal number of crunodes which can occur on the evolute of a real-algebraic curve of degree \(d\).\N\NReal nodes of real-algebraic curves are subdivided into crunodes and acnodes, the former being transversal intersections of two real branches and the latter being transversal intersections of two complex conjugate branches

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