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Jean Paul Dufour

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arXiv2025

Symmetries of 3-webs around a point

Let W be a planar 3-web defined on a neighborhood of a point M. We call "symmetry of W around M" any local diffeomorphism which fixes M and maps each foliation of W to a (not necessarily the same) foliation of W. We say that it is a simple symmetry if it respects each foliation, a mirror symmetry if its respects one foliation and permutes the two other and a circular symmetry if it permutes circularly the three foliations. Hexagonal (i.e. flat) planar 3-webs have always the three types of symmetry. We study here the non-flat case. We give a classification of 3-webs which admits simple or mirror symmetries. We give a method to build all the 3-webs with a circular symmetry and we exhibit a precise non-flat example.

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arXiv2022

Le rang des tissus de Nakai

According to Alain Hénaut, a planar 4-web is called Nakai's web if the cross-ratio of the tangents to the four foliations at each point is constant and if it has no hexagonal 3-subweb. We prove that Nakai's webs have rank 0 or 1. We give examples with rank 1 and present a universal way to build such examples.

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arXiv2019

A step to Gronwall's conjecture

In this paper we will explore a way to prove the hundred years old Gronwall's conjecture: if two plane linear 3-webs with non-zero curvature are locally isomorphic, then the isomorphism is a homography. Using recent results of S. I. Agafonov, we exhibit an invariant, the {\sl characteristic}, attached to each generic point of such a web, with the following property: if a diffeomorphism interchanges two such linear webs, sending a point of the first to a point of the second which have the same characteristic, then this diffeomomorphism is locally a homography.

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arXiv2017

Rank of ordinary webs in codimension one. An effective method

We are interested by holomorphic $d$-webs $W$ of codimension one in a complex $n$-dimensional manifold $M$. If they are ordinary, i.e. if they satisfy to some condition of genericity (whose precise definition is recalled), we proved in [CL] that their rank $ρ(W)$ is upper-bounded by a certain number $π'(n,d)\ \bigl($which, for $n\geq 3$, is stictly smaller than the Castelnuovo-Chern's bound $π(n,d)\bigr)$. In fact, denoting by $c(n,h)$ the dimension of the space of homogeneous polynomials of degree $h$ with $n$ unknowns, and by $h_0$ the integer such that $$c(n,h_0-1)<d\leq c(n,h_0),$$ $π'(n,d)$ is just the first number of a decreasing sequence of positive integers $$π'(n,d)=ρ_{h_0-2}\geq ρ_{h_0-1}\geq \cdots\geq ρ_{h}\geq ρ_{h+1}\geq\cdots\geq ρ_{\infty}=ρ(W)\geq 0 $$ becoming stationary equal to $ρ(W)$ after a finite number of steps. This sequence is an interesting invariant of the web, refining the data of the only rank. The method is effective : theoretically, we can compute $ρ_h$ for any given $h$ ; and, as soon as two consecutive such numbers are equal ($ρ_h=ρ_{h+1}, \ h\geq h_0-2$), we can construct a holomorphic vector bundle $R_h\to M$ of rank $ρ_h$, equipped with a tautological holomorphic connection $\nabla^h$ whose curvature $K^h$ vanishes iff the above sequence is stationary from there. Thus, we may stop the process at the first step where the curvature vanishes. Examples will be given.

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arXiv1999

Topological rigidity for certain families of differentiable plane curves

We show that the topological classification and the smooth classification are generically the same for certain families of plane curves in a semi-local case(the double local case). Especially we give the normal form of transversely jointed two families of plane curves with second order contact at the envelope.

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arXiv1997

Linearization of Nambu Structures

We classify linear Nambu structures (which are generalized Poisson structures in Hamiltonian dynamics and which give rise to integrable differential forms and singular foliations), then give a linearization for Nambu structures anf integrable differential forms near a nondegenerate singular point.

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