Singularities of convex hulls as fronts of Legendre varieties

Ilia Bogaevski

Banach Center Publications (1999)

  • Volume: 50, Issue: 1, page 61-74
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

Abstract

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We describe singularities of the convex hull of a generic compact smooth hypersurface in four-dimensional affine space up to diffeomorphism. It turns out that the boundary of the convex hull is the front of a Legendre variety. Its singularities are classified up to contact diffeomorphism.

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Bogaevski, Ilia. "Singularities of convex hulls as fronts of Legendre varieties." Banach Center Publications 50.1 (1999): 61-74. <http://eudml.org/doc/209018>.

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