Approximations of periodic functions to \(\mathbb R ^n\) by curvatures of closed curves (Q387570): Difference between revisions

It is known that every closed Frenet curve \(\alpha:S^1\rightarrow\mathbb R^{n+1}\) gives rise to the curvature-like function \(j_\alpha:S^1\rightarrow\mathbb R_+^{n-1}\times\mathbb R\), defined by \(j_\alpha(t)=(k_1^\alpha(t),\ldots ,k_n^\alpha(t)),\) where \(k_1^\alpha,\ldots ,k_n^\alpha\) are the curvatures of the curve \(\alpha\). A curvature-like function \(s\) having the form \(j_\alpha\), for some curve \(\alpha\), is called holonomic. Given a curvature like-function \(s\) and a real number \(\varepsilon>0\), then a closed curve \(\alpha\) is said to be a holonomic \(\varepsilon\)-approximation of \(s\) if \(j_\alpha\) is \(\varepsilon\)-close to \(s\). In the paper under review, the authors prove that every curvature-like function admits a holonomic \(\varepsilon\)-approximation for every \(\varepsilon\).