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  2. Resolution of singularities - Wikipedia

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    An example where it does not is given by the isolated singularity of x 2 + y 3 z + z 3 = 0 at the origin. Blowing it up gives the singularity x 2 + y 2 z + yz 3 = 0. It is not immediately obvious that this new singularity is better, as both singularities have multiplicity 2 and are given by the sum of monomials of degrees 2, 3, and 4.

  3. Point groups in three dimensions - Wikipedia

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    The three-fold axes give rise to four D 3d subgroups. The three perpendicular four-fold axes of O now give D 4h subgroups, while the six two-fold axes give six D 2h subgroups. This group is isomorphic to S 4 × Z 2 (because both O and C i are normal subgroups), and is the symmetry group of the cube and octahedron. See also the isometries of the ...

  4. Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems - Wikipedia

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    The part inside the event horizon necessarily has a singularity somewhere. The proof is somewhat constructive – it shows that the singularity can be found by following light-rays from a surface just inside the horizon. But the proof does not say what type of singularity occurs, spacelike, timelike, null, orbifold, jump discontinuity in the ...

  5. Whitney umbrella - Wikipedia

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    The pinch point and the fold singularity are the only stable local singularities of maps from R 2 to R 3. It is named after the American mathematician Hassler Whitney . In string theory , a Whitney brane is a D7-brane wrapping a variety whose singularities are locally modeled by the Whitney umbrella.

  6. Vyacheslav Shokurov - Wikipedia

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    One of Shokurov's ideas formed a basis for a paper titled 3-fold log flips where the existence of three-dimensional flips (first proved by Shigefumi Mori) was established in a more general log setting. The inductive method and the singularity theory of log pairs developed in the framework of that paper allowed most of the paper's results to be ...

  7. Real algebraic geometry - Wikipedia

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    1929 B. L. van der Waerden sketches a proof that real algebraic and semialgebraic sets are triangularizable, [22] but the necessary tools have not been developed to make the argument rigorous. 1931 Alfred Tarski's real quantifier elimination. [23] Improved and popularized by Abraham Seidenberg in 1954. [24] (Both use Sturm's theorem.)

  8. 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

  9. 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.