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# Umbilic Points on the Finite and Infinite Parts of Certain Algebraic Surfaces

@article{Guilfoyle2018UmbilicPO,
title={Umbilic Points on the Finite and Infinite Parts of Certain Algebraic Surfaces},
author={Brendan Guilfoyle and Adriana Ortiz-Rodr'iguez},
journal={arXiv: Differential Geometry},
year={2018}
}
• Published 15 August 2018
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Differential Geometry
The global qualitative behaviour of fields of principal directions for the graph of a real valued polynomial function $f$ on the plane are studied. We provide a Poincar\'e-Hopf type formula where the sum over all indices of the principal directions at its umbilic points only depends upon the number of real linear factors of the homogeneous part of highest degree of $f$. Moreover, we study the projective extension of these fields and prove, under generic conditions, that every umbilic point at…
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