Isolated critical curvature points for general hypersurfaces

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Let n4n\geq 4, and let XRnX\subset \mathbb{R}^n be a general algebraic hypersurface of degree dd. 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 XX has isolated complex critical curvature points.

For surfaces in R3\mathbb{R}^3, the paper proves isolated complex critical curvature points and gives an upper bound for their number. The analogous assertion in dimensions n4n\geq 4 is supported by experiments, but the paper does not provide a proof.

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Paul Breiding, Kristian Ranestad and Madeleine Weinstein, “Critical Curvature of Algebraic Surfaces in Three-Space”, arXiv:2206.09130 (2024).

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