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Bifurcations of implicit differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2007

J. W. Bruce
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (jwbruce@liv.ac.uk)
G. J. Fletcher
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (jwbruce@liv.ac.uk)
F. Tari
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências, Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 668, CEP 13560-970, São Carlos (SP), Brasil (tari@icmsc.sc.usp.br)

Abstract

In this paper we give a local classification of the integral curves of implicit differential equations where F is a smooth function and p = dy/dx, at points where Fp = 0, Fpp ≠ 0 and where the discriminant {(x, y) : F = Fp = 0} has a Morse singularity. We also produce models for generic bifurcations of such equations and apply the results to the differential geometry of smooth surfaces. This completes the local classification of generic one-parameter families of binary differential equations (BDEs).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2000

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