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Mathematical curve with two cusps From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bicorn
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In geometry, the bicorn, also known as a cocked hat curve due to its resemblance to a bicorne, is a rational quartic curve defined by the equation[1] It has two cusps and is symmetric about the y-axis.[2]

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Bicorn
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History

In 1864, James Joseph Sylvester studied the curve in connection with the classification of quintic equations; he named the curve a bicorn because it has two cusps. This curve was further studied by Arthur Cayley in 1867.[3]

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Properties

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A transformed bicorn with a = 1

The bicorn is a plane algebraic curve of degree four and genus zero. It has two cusp singularities in the real plane, and a double point in the complex projective plane at . If we move and to the origin and perform an imaginary rotation on by substituting for and for in the bicorn curve, we obtain This curve, a limaçon, has an ordinary double point at the origin, and two nodes in the complex plane, at and .[4]

The parametric equations of a bicorn curve are with

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