The relation among Bishop spherical indicatrix curves (Q2905820)

A Bishop frame or parallel transport frame is a moving frame of a curve in Euclidean three space defined as follows [\textit{R. L. Bishop}, Am. Math. Mon. 82, 246--251 (1975; Zbl 0298.53001)]. Considering a curve parametrized by arclength \(s\), the first vector is the unit tangent vector \(T(s)\), the second and third vector \(N_1(s),N_2(s)\) are selected arbitrarily so that \((T(s), N_1(s), N_2(s))\) is an orthonormal frame and the (skew symmetric) frame equations read \(T'=k_1N_1+k_2N_2, N_1'=-k_1T, N_2'=-k_2T\) where \(k_1, k_2\) are certain functions. In the present paper some properties of the spherical indicatrices of the Bishop frame vectors are studied.