Sides of the Möbius strip (Q1924939)
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Sides of the Möbius strip (English)
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17 June 1997
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The paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions for a curve to be the unique center curve of an analytic and flat embedding of the Möbius strip (or the orientable cylinder) into Euclidean 3-space. Using these conditions, we extend an example of G. Schwarz into a continuous family of analytic and flat Möbius strips. This family is split into two connected components. We give a topological argument that explains this behaviour. Finally, we draw the connection to the work of C. Chicone and N. J. Kalton on flat and analytic Möbius strips. This points towards a connection between a linking number and the total torsion of the orthogonal axis of a Möbius strip.
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center curves of Möbius strips
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flat and analytic embeddings of Möbius strips
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linking number
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total torsion
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