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Singularities of convex-polygonally generated shape-densities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Hui-Lin Le
Affiliation:
Darwin College, University of Cambridge

Abstract

In earlier papers Kendall and Le[3,4] made a geometrical study of the structure and singularities of a convex-polygonally generated shape-density for any convex polygon K. The present work describes the singular tessellation T(K) in algebraic terms, and obtains explicit formulae for the ‘jump functions’ of m̃ across every edge of the tessellation. These results, combined with earlier work by Le[5] on the basic tile, make it possible to find m̃ explicitly in every tile by what we have called the ‘stepping-stone’ method. In a closing section the exact order of the differential singularity is found at the tile boundaries.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1987

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