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. 2011 Dec 20;12(12):9533–9569. doi: 10.3390/ijms12129533

Table 2.

Thom’s Classification of Elementary Catastrophes [36,37].

Name Co-dimension Co-rank Universal unfolding Parametric Representation
Fold 1 1 x3 + ux graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f4.jpg
Cusp 2 1 x4 + ux2 + vx graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f5.jpg
Swallow tail 3 1 x5 + ux3 + vx2 + wx graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f6.jpg
Butterfly 4 1 x6 + ux4 + vx3 + wx2 + tx graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f7.jpg
Hyperbolic umbilic 3 2 x3 + y3 + uxy + vx + wy graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f8.jpg
Elliptic umbilic 3 2 x3xy2 + u(x2 + y2 ) + vx + wy graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f9.jpg
Parabolic umbilic 4 2 x2y + y4 + ux2 + vy2 + wx + ty graphic file with name ijms-12-09533f10.jpg