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AUTHOR
Esther Sanabria-codesal
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Generalized evolutes, vertices and conformal invariants of curves in Rn + 1
1999
Abstract We define the generalized evolute of a curve in ( n + 1)-space and find a duality relation between them. We also prove that the conformal torsion is a function of the speed of the generalized evolute and that the singular points of the generalized evolute (vertices) are conformal invariants.
Critical points of higher order for the normal map of immersions in Rd
2012
We study the critical points of the normal map v : NM -> Rk+n, where M is an immersed k-dimensional submanifold of Rk+n, NM is the normal bundle of M and v(m, u) = m + u if u is an element of NmM. Usually, the image of these critical points is called the focal set. However, in that set there is a subset where the focusing is highest, as happens in the case of curves in R-3 with the curve of the centers of spheres with contact of third order with the curve. We give a definition of r-critical points of a smooth map between manifolds, and apply it to study the 2 and 3-critical points of the normal map in general and the 2-critical points for the case k = n = 2 in detail. In the later case we a…