Global structure of holomorphic webs on surfaces
The webs have been studied mainly locally, near regular points (see a short list of references on the topic in the bibliography). Let d be an integer ≥ 1. A d-web on an open set U of ℂ² is a differential equation F(x,y,y’) = 0 with , where the coefficients are holomorphic functions, a₀ being not identically zero. A regular point is a point (x,y) where the d roots in y’ are distinct (near such a point, we have locally d foliations mutually transverse to each other, and caustics appear through...