Abstract

The number of vertices of a smooth Jordan curve with nowhere vanishing curvature can change under the action of a nonsingular real linear transformation. We examine the bifurcation set in the space of linear transformations for the number of vertices on the image curve, showing that generally there is a codimension-one set of linear transformations making an arbitrary point into a vertex, and obtaining conditions that the point be capable of being transformed into a higher vertex. We demonstrate that there is always an open set of linear transformations such that the image curves have at least six vertices.

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