García Monera, María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-05-29)
[EN] Classically, the study of the contact with hyperplanes and hyperspheres has been realized by using the family of height and distance squared functions. On the first part of the thesis, we analyze the Taylor expansion ...
In this work we consider the Taylor expansion of the exponential map of a submanifold
immersed in Rn up to order three, in order to introduce the concepts of lateral
and frontal deviation. We compute the directions of ...