Title
Computing singular points of plane rational curves
Abstract
We compute the singular points of a plane rational curve, parametrically given, using the implicitization matrix derived from the @m-basis of the curve. It is shown that singularity factors, which are defined and uniquely determined by the elementary divisors of the implicitization matrix, contain all the information about the singular points, such as the parameter values of the singular points and their multiplicities. Based on this observation, an efficient and numerically stable algorithm for computing the singular points is devised, and inversion formulae for the singular points are derived. In particular, high order singular points can be detected and computed effectively. This approach based on singularity factors can also determine whether a rational curve has any non-ordinary singular points that contain singular points in its infinitely near neighborhood. Furthermore, a method is proposed to determine whether a singular point is ordinary or not. Finally, a conjecture in [Chionh, E.-W., Sederberg, T.W., 2001. On the minors of the implicitization bezout matrix for a rational plane curve. Computer Aided Geometric Design 18, 21-36] regarding the multiplicity of the singular points of a plane rational curve is proved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.jsc.2007.10.003
J. Symb. Comput.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
plane curve,parametric curve,singular point
Journal
43
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
Journal of Symbolic Computation
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.49
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Falai Chen140332.47
Wenping Wang22491176.19
Yang Liu3159976.76