Characterization of spherical and plane curves using rotation minimizing frames

DOI10.5269/BSPM.49075MaRDI QIDQ6194675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luiz C. B. da Silva

Publication date 16 February 2024

Published in Boletim da Sociedade Paranaense de Matemática (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01577

zbMATH Keywords

Bertrand curvegeneral helixplane curverotation minimizing frameslant helixspherical curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Local differential geometry (53B99)

Abstract: In this work, we study plane and spherical curves in Euclidean and Lorentz-Minkowski 3-spaces by employing rotation minimizing (RM) frames. By conveniently writing the curvature and torsion for a curve on a sphere, we show how to find the angle between the principal normal and an RM vector field for spherical curves. Later, we characterize plane and spherical curves as curves whose position vector lies, up to a translation, on a moving plane spanned by their unit tangent and an RM vector field. Finally, as an application, we characterize Bertrand curves and slant helices as curves whose so-called natural mates are spherical and general helices, respectively.

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