Singularities of plane curves which occur as singular sections of the bifurcation sets of the cuspoid catastrophes

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/14/7/015zbMath0478.58008OpenAlexW2082706214MaRDI QIDQ3935893

Francis John Wright

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/14/7/015

zbMATH Keywords

winding numberkinkbutterfly catastrophebendunfolding of a singularityumbilic catastrophessingularities of plane curves which occur as singular sections of the bifurcation sets of the cuspoid catastrophes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Catastrophe theory (58K35)

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