Swastika curve

The swastika curve.

The swastika curve is the name given by Martyn Cundy and A. P. Rollett in their book Mathematical Models^[1] to a type of quartic plane curve.

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The plane curve with the Cartesian equation

${\displaystyle y^{4}-x^{4}=xy,\,}$

or, equivalently, the polar equation

${\displaystyle r^{2}={\frac {\sin(\theta )\cos(\theta )}{\sin ^{4}(\theta )-\cos ^{4}(\theta )}}=-{\frac {\tan(2\theta )}{2}}.\,}$

The curve looks similar to the right-handed swastika. It can be inverted with respect to a unit circle to resemble a left-handed swastika. The Cartesian equation then becomes a quartic curve,

${\displaystyle x^{4}-y^{4}=xy.\,}$

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• "Swastika Curve". Mathworld.