A PROJECTIVE INVARIANT FOR SWALLOWTAILS AND GODRONS, AND GLOBAL THEOREMS ON THE FLECNODAL CURVE
A PROJECTIVE INVARIANT FOR SWALLOWTAILS AND GODRONS, AND GLOBAL THEOREMS ON THE FLECNODAL CURVE
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DOI:
10.17323/1609-4514-2006-6-4-731-768
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发表时间:
2006-01-01
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0.8
通讯作者:
Uribe-Vargas, Ricardo
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作者:
Uribe-Vargas, Ricardo
We show some generic (robust) properties of smooth surfaces immersed in the real 3-space (Euclidean, affine or projective), in the neighbourhood of a godron (called also cusp of Gauss): an isolated parabolic point at which the (unique) asymptotic direction is tangent to the parabolic curve. With the help of these properties and a projective invariant that we associate to each godron we present all possible local configurations of the tangent plane, the self-intersection line, the cuspidal edge and the flecnodal curve at a generic swallowtail in R-3. We present some global results, for instance: In a hyperbolic disc of a generic smooth surface, the,flee-nodal curve has an odd number of transverse self-intersections (hence at least One self-intersection).