Position vectors of spacelike general helices in Minkowski 3-space (Q984083): Difference between revisions

The problem of the determination of parametric representation of the position vector of an arbitrary space curve according to the intrinsic equations is still open in the Euclidean space \(\mathbf E^3\) and in the Minkowski space \(\mathbf E^3_1\). This problem is not easy to solve in the general case. Indeed, this problem is solved only in two special cases: first, in the case of a plane curve (torsion \(\tau = 0\)); and secondly, in the case of a helix (curvature \(\kappa\) and \(\tau\) are both non-vanishing constants). The author in a previous paper adapted the fundamental existence and uniqueness theorem for space curves to time-like curves of the space \(\mathbf E^3_1\) and constructed a vector differential equation to solve this problem in the case of a general helix (\(\frac{\tau}{\kappa}\) is constant) in Minkowski space \(\mathbf E^3_1\). In the present paper he determined the parametric representation of the position vector \(\psi\) from intrinsic equations in \(\mathbf E^3_1\) for the case of a space-like general helix with a space-like and time*like principal normal vector.