An algebraic surface with affine equation
(1)
where
is a Chebyshev polynomial of the
first kind and
is a polynomial defined by
(2)
where the matrices have dimensions . These represent surfaces in with only ordinary
double points as singularities. The first few surfaces are given by
The th
order such surface has
(6)
singular points (Chmutov 1992), giving the sequence 0, 1, 3, 14, 28, 57, 93, 154, 216, 321, 425, 576, 732, 949, 1155, ... (OEIS A057870 )
for ,
2, .... For a number of orders , Chmutov surfaces have more ordinary double points than any
other known equations of the same degree.
Based on Chmutov's equations, Banchoff (1991) defined the simpler set of surfaces
(7)
where
is even and is again a Chebyshev
polynomial of the first kind . For example, the surfaces illustrated above have
orders 2, 4, and 6 and are given by the equations
See also Goursat's Surface ,
Ordinary
Double Point ,
Superellipse ,
Tanglecube
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