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Cartan Prolongation of a Family of Curves Acquiring a Node
Susan Jane Colleya, Gary Kennedyb a Department of Mathematics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, USA
b Ohio State University at Mansfield, 1760 University Drive, Mansfield, Ohio 44906, USA
Abstract:
Using the monster/Semple tower construction, we study the structure of the Cartan prolongation of the family $x_1x_2 = t$ of plane curves with nodal central member.
Keywords:
curve families; nodal singularity; vector distributions; prolongation.
Received: October 27, 2017; in final form April 3, 2018; Published online April 7, 2018
Citation:
Susan Jane Colley, Gary Kennedy, “Cartan Prolongation of a Family of Curves Acquiring a Node”, SIGMA, 14 (2018), 031, 16 pp.
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