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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Real and Complex Singularities

Farid TariGraham Mark Reeve

subject

Plane curveMedial axisEuclidean geometryMinkowski spaceMathematics::Metric GeometryGeometryGravitational singularityMathematics

description

In this paper a Minkowski analogue of the Euclidean medial axis of a closed and smooth plane curve is introduced. Its generic local configurations are studied and the types of shocks that occur on these are also determined.

https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/675