HCRP project 2009
Caustic on ellipsoid
Caustic of ellipsoid
by
Oliver Knill and Michael Teodorescu
Office: SciCtr 434
Email:
knill@math.harvard.edu
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Exhibits
First part (Fall 2008)
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Geodesics on an ellipsoid close to the sphere. The still open Last geometric of Jacobi predicts the caustic to have exactly 4 cusps if the original point is not an umbillical point.
Questions and comments to
knill@math.harvard.edu
Oliver Knill
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Department of Mathematics
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Harvard University
