The topology of caustics, wave fronts, and degeneracies of critical points

DOI10.1070/RM1984V039N02ABEH003155zbMath0554.58012OpenAlexW1981718733MaRDI QIDQ3217287

Alexander Varchenko, Sabir M. Gusein-Zade

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1070/rm1984v039n02abeh003155

zbMATH Keywords

singularitywave frontdegenerate critical pointcausticMaxwell stratumbifurcation diagram of functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99)

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