Perestroikas of vertex sets at umbilic points

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2006-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/math/0603342v2

Funct. Anal. Other Math. 2 (2009), no 2-4, 165--178

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

V2: Latex, 17 pages, 9 figures. Some minor misprints added. Interesting comments from Prof. V.I. Arnold added

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11853-008-0022-3

Mark all vertices on a curve evolving under a family of curves obtained by intersecting a smooth surface M with the 1-parameter family of planes parallel to the tangent plane to M at a point p. Those vertices trace out a set, called the vertex set of M through p. We take p to be an isolated umbilic point on M and describe the perestroikas of the vertex set under generic n-parameter small deformations of the surface, as well as the corresponding discriminants. One of the main consequences of our results is that, in some sense (see Theorem 2), generically the study of the discriminants of small n-deformations, with n greater than or equal to 2, simplifies to that of 2-deformations. This work was primarily motivated by the medial representation of shapes in Computer Vision and Image Analysis, where the behaviour of vertices plays a crucial role in the qualitative changes of the skeleton or Blum medial axis of curves. On the other hand, the study of vertices of curves has raised up a great interest in particular in Geometry and Singularity Theory, in line with several problems such as the 4-vertex Theorem, the local geometry of surfaces and Geometry of Caustics. These classical subjects have received a new impulsion due to the development of Contact Geometry, especially in the works of V. Arnold on Legendrian Collapse and Legendrian Sturm Theory showing the relation between vertices of plane curves and Legendrian singularities and Sturm-Hurwitz Theorem.

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