When a pair of wave dislocations is created in two dimensions, or a ring of dislocation in three dimensions, higher-order local solutions are needed to exhibit the full details of the local phase pattern. The same is true for the hyperbolic interchange (reconnection) event. The contours of equal phase may or may not show local saddle points.
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J. F. Nye (2004) studied this question.
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