In his work on elementary catastrophes Zeeman(1) has considered what he has named as the double cusp catastrophe. This catastrophe is defined by the unfolding of the two variable polynomial x4 + y4. Using Mather's results (2) on stability of singular germs of C∞ maps we can find an expression for the unfolding. The eight dimensional unfolding can then be considered as a polynomial in two variables with eight parameters.
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