Caustics of de Sitter spacelike curves in Minkowski 3-space
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In this paper, we consider evolutes of spacelike curves in de Sitter 2-space. Applying the theory of singularity theory, we find that these evolutes can be seen as one dimensional caustics which are locally diffeomorphic to lines or ordinary cusps. We establish the relationships between singularities of caustics and geometric invariants of curves under the action of the Lorentz group. c ©2016 All rights reserved.
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