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Flat surfaces along swallowtails

Differential Geometry 2017-09-20 v1

Abstract

We consider developable surfaces along the singular set of a swallowtail which are considered to be flat approximations of the swallowtail. For the study of singularities of such developable surfaces, we introduce the notion of Darboux frames along swallowtails and invariants. As a by-product, we give a new example of a frontal which is locally homeomorphic to a swallowtail.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06133,
  title  = {Flat surfaces along swallowtails},
  author = {Shyuichi Izumiya and Kentaro Saji and Keisuke Teramoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06133},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17pages 17 figures

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