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Singularities in drawings of singular surfaces

Alain Joets (2008)

Banach Center Publications

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When drawing regular surfaces, one creates a concrete and visual example of a projection between two spaces of dimension 2. The singularities of the projection define the apparent contour of the surface. As a result there are two types of generic singularities: fold and cusp (Whitney singularities). The case of singular surfaces is much more complex. A priori, it is expected that new singularities may appear, resulting from the "interaction" between the singularities of the surface and...

A stable class of spacetimes with naked singularities

Marcus Kriele (1997)

Banach Center Publications

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We present a stable class of spacetimes which satisfy the conditions of the singularity theorem of Hawking & Penrose (1970), and which contain naked singularities. This offers counterexamples to a geometric version of the strong cosmic censorship hypothesis.

Singularities of relativistic membranes

J. Eggers, J. Hoppe, M. Hynek, N. Suramlishvili (2015)

Geometric Flows

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Pointing out a crucial relation with caustics of the eikonal equation we discuss the singularity formation of 2-dimensional surfaces that sweep out 3-manifolds of zero mean curvature in R3,1.

Singularities of eddy current problems

Martin Costabel, Monique Dauge, Serge Nicaise (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

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We consider the time-harmonic eddy current problem in its electric formulation where the conductor is a polyhedral domain. By proving the convergence in energy, we justify in what sense this problem is the limit of a family of Maxwell transmission problems: Rather than a low frequency limit, this limit has to be understood in the sense of Bossavit [11]. We describe the singularities of the solutions. They are related to edge and corner singularities of certain problems for the scalar Laplace...