Lines of principal curvature around umbilics and whitney umbrellas

Tohoku Mathematical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-172

  Garcia, Ronaldo ^a   Gutierrez, Carlos ^b   Sotomayor, Jorge ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b ICMC Universidade De Sñao Paulo   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lines of curvature; Principal configuration; Whitney umbrella singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034376237     PISSN: 00408735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2748/tmj/1178224605     Document Type: Article

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