Timeline for Dual Curves in Fancy Language
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 23, 2010 at 16:51 | vote | accept | Nicolas Ford | ||
| May 15, 2010 at 20:08 | answer | added | mdeland | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 12, 2010 at 9:35 | answer | added | Dan Petersen | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 12, 2010 at 3:05 | answer | added | Charles Siegel | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 12, 2010 at 2:08 | comment | added | Felipe Voloch | Check out some of Kleiman's papers from the '80s. | |
| May 12, 2010 at 0:44 | comment | added | Nicolas Ford | I can "see the picture" for some of the correspondences -- the node/bitangent picture works pretty well -- but for others I don't see it at all, like cusp/flex. At any rate, what I'd like is some satisfying way to see that that geometric intuition actually works. What I have now feels like magic, and I feel like I just blindly stumbled onto the right answers. | |
| May 11, 2010 at 23:48 | comment | added | VA. | That's what the geometric intuition is for. Move a point along the curve and see what the tangents trace out. And since the duality is an involution, you get to choose at which side you prefer to work. (I don't mean to patronize, I hope it doesn't come across this way.) | |
| May 11, 2010 at 23:33 | history | asked | Nicolas Ford | CC BY-SA 2.5 |