Search results for "Singular point of a curve"

On Weakly Singular Integral Equations of the Second Kind

1988

Bifurcations of cuspidal loops

1997

A cuspidal loop for a planar vector field X consists of a homoclinic orbit through a singular point p, at which X has a nilpotent cusp. This is the simplest non-elementary singular cycle (or graphic) in the sense that its singularities are not elementary (i.e. hyperbolic or semihyperbolic). Cuspidal loops appear persistently in three-parameter families of planar vector fields. The bifurcation diagrams of unfoldings of cuspidal loops are studied here under mild genericity hypotheses: the singular point p is of Bogdanov - Takens type and the derivative of the first return map along the orbit is different from 1. An analytic and geometric method based on the blowing up for unfoldings is propos…

Desingularization Theory and Bifurcation of Non-elementary Limit Periodic Sets

1998

In the study of the Bogdanov-Takens unfolding, we introduced in 4.3.5.2 the following formulas of rescaling in the phase-space and in the parameter space: $$ x = {r^2}\bar x,y = {r^3}\bar y,\mu = - {r^4},\nu = {r^2}\bar \nu . $$

Stability of Hamiltonian Systems of Two Degrees of Freedom and of Formally Conservative Mappings Near a Singular Point

1985

We restrict ourselves to the stability problems considered in our lecture because the length of this paper is limited. In contrast to the lecture, however, we consider here not only area preserving mappings but a more general class of mappings.

Singularities of rational Bézier curves

2001

We prove that if an nth degree rational Bezier curve has a singular point, then it belongs to the two (n − 1)th degree rational Bezier curves defined in the (n − 1)th step of the de Casteljau algorithm. Moreover, both curves are tangent at the singular point. A procedure to construct Bezier curves with singularities of any order is given.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Iterative construction of Dupin cyclides characteristic circles using non-stationary Iterated Function Systems (IFS)

2012

International audience; A Dupin cyclide can be defined, in two different ways, as the envelope of an one-parameter family of oriented spheres. Each family of spheres can be seen as a conic in the space of spheres. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to compute a characteristic circle of a Dupin cyclide from a point and the tangent at this point in the space of spheres. Then, we propose iterative algorithms (in the space of spheres) to compute (in 3D space) some characteristic circles of a Dupin cyclide which blends two particular canal surfaces. As a singular point of a Dupin cyclide is a point at infinity in the space of spheres, we use the massic points defined by J.C. Fiorot. As we su…

Techniques in the Theory of Local Bifurcations: Cyclicity and Desingularization

1993

A fundamental open question of the bifurcation theory of vector fields in dimension 2 is whether the number of locally bifurcating limit cycles in an analytic unfolding is bounded, or more precisely, whether any limit periodic set has finite cyclicity. In these notes we introduce several techniques for attacking this question: asymptotic expansion of return maps, ideal of coefficients, desingularization of parametrized families. Moreover, because of their practical interest, we present some partial results obtained by these techniques.

The 0-Parameter Case

1998

As an introduction to the theory of bifurcations, in this chapter we want to consider individual vector fields, i.e., families of vector fields with a 0-dimensional parameter space. We will present two fundamentals tools: the desingularization and the asymptotic expansion of the return map along a limit periodic set. In the particular case of an individual vector field these techniques give the desired final result: the desingularization theorem says that any algebraically isolated singular point may be reduced to a finite number of elementary singularities by a finite sequence of blow-ups. If X is an analytic vector field on S 2, then the return map of any elementary graphic has an isolate…

A Property on Singularities of NURBS Curves

2002

We prove that if a.n open Non Uniform Rational B-Spline curve of order k has a singular point, then it belongs to both curves of order k - 1 defined in the k - 2 step of the de Boor algorithm. Moreover, both curves are tangent at the singular point.

A poincar�-bendixson theorem for analytic families of vector fields

1995

We provide a characterization of the limit periodic sets for analytic families of vector fields under the hypothesis that the first jet is non-vanishing at any singular point. Also, applying the family desingularization method, we reduce the complexity of some of these sets.