Open AccessMathematics

Atsufumi Honda, Kosuke Naokawa, Kentaro Saji, Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada

2019.6.6Journal of Singularities

DOI: 10.5427/jsing.2020.22e

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Duality on generalized cuspidal edges preserving singular set images and first fundamental forms is established in 3D Euclidean space.

Abstract

In the second, fourth and fifth authors' previous work, a duality on generic real analytic cuspidal edges in the Euclidean 3-space $\boldsymbol R^3$ preserving their singular set images and first fundamental forms, was given. Here, we call this an `isometric duality'. When the singular set image has no symmetries and does not lie in a plane, the dual cuspidal edge is not congruent to the original one. In this paper, we show that this duality extends to generalized cuspidal edges in $\boldsymbol R^3$, including cuspidal cross caps, and $5/2$-cuspidal edges. Moreover, we give several new geometric insights on this duality.

Citation format

HONDA, Atsufumi, et al. Duality on generalized cuspidal edges preserving singular set images and first fundamental forms [preprint]. arXiv, 2019. arXiv:1906.02556.