Curvature lines of a transversal equiaffine vector field along a surface in 3-space

Marcos Craizer and Ronaldo A. Garcia

Journal of Singularities
volume 25 (2022), 134-143

Received: 25 February 2021. Received in revised form: 2 June 2021.

DOI: 10.5427/jsing.2022.25g

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Abstract:

In this paper we discuss the behavior of the curvature lines of a transversal equiaffine vector field along a surface in 3-space at isolated umbilical points.


2010 Mathematical Subject Classification:

53A15, 53A05


Key words and phrases:

Affine umbilical points, Affine curvature lines, Line Congruences, Loewner's conjecture, Carathéodory conjecture


Author(s) information:

Marcos Craizer
Departamento de Matemática
PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
craizer@puc-rio.br

Ronaldo A. Garcia
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística- UFG
Goiânia, GO, Brazil
ragarcia@ufg.br