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1: 36.4 Bifurcation Sets
Critical Points for Umbilics
Bifurcation (Catastrophe) Set for Umbilics
Elliptic umbilic bifurcation set (codimension three): for fixed z , the section of the bifurcation set is a three-cusped astroid … Elliptic umbilic cusp lines (ribs): …
§36.4(ii) Visualizations
2: 36.5 Stokes Sets
Stokes sets are surfaces (codimension one) in 𝐱 space, across which Ψ K ( 𝐱 ; k ) or Ψ ( U ) ( 𝐱 ; k ) acquires an exponentially-small asymptotic contribution (in k ), associated with a complex critical point of Φ K or Φ ( U ) . …
§36.5(iii) Umbilics
Elliptic Umbilic Stokes Set (Codimension three)
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Figure 36.5.5: Elliptic umbilic catastrophe with z = constant . Magnify
3: Bibliography B
  • M. V. Berry and C. J. Howls (1990) Stokes surfaces of diffraction catastrophes with codimension three. Nonlinearity 3 (2), pp. 281–291.
  • M. V. Berry and C. J. Howls (1994) Overlapping Stokes smoothings: Survival of the error function and canonical catastrophe integrals. Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 444, pp. 201–216.
  • M. V. Berry and C. J. Howls (2010) Axial and focal-plane diffraction catastrophe integrals. J. Phys. A 43 (37), pp. 375206, 13.
  • M. V. Berry, J. F. Nye, and F. J. Wright (1979) The elliptic umbilic diffraction catastrophe. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Ser. A 291 (1382), pp. 453–484.
  • M. V. Berry and C. Upstill (1980) Catastrophe optics: Morphologies of caustics and their diffraction patterns. In Progress in Optics, E. Wolf (Ed.), Vol. 18, pp. 257–346.