How regular is the evolute of a plane curve?

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Main Authors: Thomas, Pascal J., Nikolov, Nikolai
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Published: 2025
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author Thomas, Pascal J.
Nikolov, Nikolai
author_facet Thomas, Pascal J.
Nikolov, Nikolai
contents We study the relationship between the smoothness of a plane curve and that of its evolute, especially in the cases where the parent curve is no more two or three times continuously differentiable, and exhibit the same kind of apparent improvement in regularity: in the generic local situation, the evolute has one order of regularity less than the parent curve.
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spellingShingle How regular is the evolute of a plane curve?
Thomas, Pascal J.
Nikolov, Nikolai
Differential Geometry
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Metric Geometry
53A04
We study the relationship between the smoothness of a plane curve and that of its evolute, especially in the cases where the parent curve is no more two or three times continuously differentiable, and exhibit the same kind of apparent improvement in regularity: in the generic local situation, the evolute has one order of regularity less than the parent curve.
title How regular is the evolute of a plane curve?
topic Differential Geometry
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Metric Geometry
53A04
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00848