Abstract
We show that generically, the degeneracies of a family of Hermitian matrices depending on three parameters have a conical structure. Our result applies to the study of topological phases of matter. It implies that adiabatic deformations of two-dimensional topological insulators come generically with Dirac-like propagating currents, whose total conductivity equals the chiral number of conical points.
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