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The Behavior Space of the Parabolic Umbilic is two dimensional and the full geometry of this Umbilic Catastrophe is essentially six-dimensional. This paper describes the geometry of both the non-compact and compact versions of the Parabolic Umbilic.
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- Control Space
- Triangular Region
- Cusp Point
- Cusp Region
- Behavior Space
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This work was begun when both authors were at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, Warwickshire, England.
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Woodcock, A.E.R., Poston, T. (1974). The geometry of the elementary catastrophes: (3). The Parabolic Umbilic. In: A Geometrical Study of the Elementary Catastrophes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 373. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0068970
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