Singularities of flat fronts in hyperbolic space

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 303-351

  Kokubu, Masatoshi ^a   Rossman, Wayne ^b   Saji, Kentaro ^c   Umehara, Masaaki ^d   Yamada, Kotaro ^e  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cuspidal edge singularity; Flat front; Hyperbolic 3 space; Swallowtail singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544438622     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: 00308730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2005.221.303     Document Type: Article

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