Parabolic point
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A point on a regular surface at which the osculating paraboloid degenerates into a parabolic cylinder. At a parabolic point the Dupin indicatrix is a pair of parallel straight lines, the Gaussian curvature is equal to zero, one of the principal curvatures (cf. Principal curvature) vanishes, and the coefficients of the second fundamental form satisfy the equation
$$LN-M^2=0.$$
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References
| [a1] | W. Klingenberg, "A course in differential geometry" , Springer (1978) pp. 50–51 (Translated from German) |
| [a2] | R.S. Millman, G.D. Parker, "Elements of differential geometry" , Prentice-Hall (1977) pp. 132 |
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