Non-standard 3-spheres locally foliated by elastic helices (Q2731119)

The article is devoted to helices, where a helix in a semi-Riemannian manifold is a curve whose curvature functions are all constant. Two propositions are moved, the first of them being the followingNEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEProposition 1. For any positive smooth function \(f\) on \(S^2\), the fibres of \(\overline{a}:(S^3,\overline{g} f)\to (S^2,g)\) are helices in \((S^3,\overline{g} f)\) with curvature \(\kappa\) and torsion \(\tau\) given by \(\kappa=\frac{|\text{grad }(b)|}{f}\) and \(\tau=-f\), where \(\pi:S^3\to S^2\) is the usual Hopf fibration, \(\overline{g}f=\pi^b(g)+(f\cdot \pi)^2\omega(dt^2)\) is a Riemannian metric in \(S^3\), \(f\) is a positive function on \(S^2\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINERelations with the Willmore-Chern functional and the elastic energy functional are outlined.