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Caustics and wave front propagations: applications to differential geometry

Shyuichi Izumiya, Masatomo Takahashi (2008)

Banach Center Publications

This is mainly a survey on the theory of caustics and wave front propagations with applications to differential geometry of hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. We give a brief review of the general theory of caustics and wave front propagations, which are well-known now. We also consider a relationship between caustics and wave front propagations which might be new. Moreover, we apply this theory to differential geometry of hypersurfaces, getting new geometric properties.

Constructing generic smooth maps of a manifold into a surface with prescribed singular loci

Osamu Saeki (1995)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

It is known that the singular set S ( f ) of a generic smooth map f : M N of an n -dimensional manifold into a surface is a closed 1-dimensional submanifold of M and that it has a natural stratification induced by the absolute index. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of those 1-dimensional (stratified) submanifolds which arise as the singular set of a generic map in terms of the homology class they represent.

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