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On singularities, envelopes and elementary differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. W. Bruce
J. W. Bruce
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University of Liverpool
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The aim of this paper is to exhibit a connection between certain types of envelope and the discriminant sets of function singularities. We show how conditions that the envelope has a certain local structure (which arise from the singularity theory) often have pleasant geometric interpretations. Moreover in many cases one can show that these conditions are generically (nearly always) satisfied.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 43 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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