A relation between the curvature ellipse and the curvature parabola
Abstract
At each point in an immersed surface in there is a curvature ellipse in the normal plane which codifies all the local second order geometry of the surface. More recently, at the singular point of a corank 1 singular surface in , a curvature parabola in the normal plane which codifies all the local second order geometry has been defined. When projecting a regular surface in to in a tangent direction corank 1 singularities appear generically. The projection has a cross-cap singularity unless the direction of projection is asymptotic, where more degenerate singularities can appear. In this paper we relate the geometry of an immersed surface in at a certain point to the geometry of the projection of the surface to at the singular point. In particular we relate the curvature ellipse of the surface to the curvature parabola of its singular projection.
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@article{arxiv.1708.04651,
title = {A relation between the curvature ellipse and the curvature parabola},
author = {Raúl Oset Sinha and Pedro Benedini Riul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04651},
year = {2017}
}
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14 pages, 1 figure