Izumiya's Lagrangian stability conjecture for generic Blaschke affine normal congruences

A 3-parameter line congruence in R4\mathbb{R}^4 is a smooth map

F(x,ξ):U×IR4,F(x,ξ)(u,t)=x(u)+tξ(u),F_{(\bm{x},\bm{\xi})}:U\times I\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}^4,\qquad F_{(\bm{x},\bm{\xi})}(u,t)=\bm{x}(u)+t\bm{\xi}(u),

where UR3U\subset\mathbb{R}^3 is open, II is an open interval, x\bm{x} parametrizes a reference hypersurface, and ξ\bm{\xi} parametrizes a director hypersurface. A Blaschke affine normal congruence is the congruence associated with the Blaschke vector field of a non-degenerate hypersurface in R4\mathbb{R}^4.

Izumiya's Lagrangian stability conjecture. Germs of generic Blaschke affine normal congruences at any point are Lagrangian stable.

The conjecture concerns the generic singularities of Blaschke affine normal congruences and their interpretation through Lagrangian singularity theory. The paper proves the classification of the generic singularities of Blaschke exact normal congruences and Blaschke normal congruences, thereby providing a positive answer to this conjecture.

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Débora Lopes, Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas and Igor Chagas Santos, “Singularities of 3-parameter line congruences in R^4”, arXiv:2110.10818 (2021).

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