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  2. Coordinate singularity - Wikipedia

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    An example is the apparent (longitudinal) singularity at the 90 degree latitude in spherical coordinates. An object moving due north (for example, along the line 0 degrees longitude ) on the surface of a sphere will suddenly experience an instantaneous change in longitude at the pole (i.e., jumping from longitude 0 to longitude 180 degrees).

  3. Singularity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A coordinate singularity occurs when an apparent singularity or discontinuity occurs in one coordinate frame, which can be removed by choosing a different frame. An example of this is the apparent singularity at the 90 degree latitude in spherical coordinates. An object moving due north (for example, along the line 0 degrees longitude) on the ...

  4. Singularity theory - Wikipedia

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    A singularity can be made by balling it up, dropping it on the floor, and flattening it. In some places the flat string will cross itself in an approximate "X" shape. The points on the floor where it does this are one kind of singularity, the double point: one bit of the floor corresponds to more

  5. Lemaître coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Lemaître coordinates are a particular set of coordinates for the Schwarzschild metric—a spherically symmetric solution to the Einstein field equations in vacuum—introduced by Georges Lemaître in 1932. [1] Changing from Schwarzschild to Lemaître coordinates removes the coordinate singularity at the Schwarzschild radius.

  6. Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The transformation between Schwarzschild coordinates and Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates defined for r > 2GM and < < can be extended, as an analytic function, at least to the first singularity which occurs at =. Thus the above metric is a solution of Einstein's equations throughout this region.

  7. Pinch point (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Section of the Whitney umbrella, an example of pinch point singularity.. In geometry, a pinch point or cuspidal point is a type of singular point on an algebraic surface.. The equation for the surface near a pinch point may be put in the form

  8. Cusp (singularity) - Wikipedia

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    Consider a smooth real-valued function of two variables, say f (x, y) where x and y are real numbers.So f is a function from the plane to the line. The space of all such smooth functions is acted upon by the group of diffeomorphisms of the plane and the diffeomorphisms of the line, i.e. diffeomorphic changes of coordinate in both the source and the target.

  9. Gullstrand–Painlevé coordinates - Wikipedia

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    There is no coordinate singularity at the Schwarzschild radius (event horizon). The outgoing ones are simply the time reverse of ingoing coordinates (the time is the proper time along outgoing particles that reach infinity with zero velocity). The solution was proposed independently by Paul Painlevé in 1921 [1] and Allvar Gullstrand [2] in 1922.