학술논문

Umbilic and Tangential Singularities on Configurations of Principal Curvature Lines
Document Type
article
Source
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. March 2002 74(1)
Subject
tangential singularity
umbilic point
principal configuration
Language
English
ISSN
0001-3765
Abstract
In this paper is studied the relationship between quadratic tangencies of principal lines with the boundary of a surface and the Darbouxian umbilics of a smooth boundaryless surface which approximates it through the process of thickening and smoothing defined here.