Isolated critical curvature points for general hypersurfaces
Let , and let be a general algebraic hypersurface of degree . A critical curvature point is a complex point of the curvature variety at which the curvature polynomial has a critical point.
Isolation conjecture. The hypersurface has isolated complex critical curvature points.
For surfaces in , the paper proves isolated complex critical curvature points and gives an upper bound for their number. The analogous assertion in dimensions is supported by experiments, but the paper does not provide a proof.
References
Primary source
Paul Breiding, Kristian Ranestad and Madeleine Weinstein, “Critical Curvature of Algebraic Surfaces in Three-Space”, arXiv:2206.09130 (2024).
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