Adiabatic catastrophe theory

Gruntfest(4i) has introduced an adiabatic catastrophe theory of the temperature rise in fracture. He used a model that made no hypotheses about the microscopic structure of the separation front. 

A topological study ofthe electron transfer in Li + CI2 system and of the three-electron hond created throngh this transfer has been achieved, based on the topological concepts of Bonding Evolntion Theory. Our results suggest that the dual cusp catastrophe characterizes the diahatic surface crossings which are subjacent in the classical adiabatic analysis ofthe overall reaction path. 

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