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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 723-731Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/33/3/723
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When wave vortices, that is nodal lines of a complex scalar wavefunction in space, approach transversely, their typical crossing and reconnection is a two-stage process incorporating two well-understood elementary events in which locally coplanar hyperbolas switch branches. The explicit description of this reconnection is a pedagogically useful illustration of several concepts: singularity, codimension, unfolding, genericity, bifurcation and normal forms.
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