Bertrand curves in the three-dimensional sphere (Q442536)

A curve \(\alpha\) immersed in the three-dimensional sphere \(\mathbb S^3\) is said to be a Bertrand curve if there exists another curve \(\beta\) and a one-to-one correspondence between \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) such that both curves have common principal normal geodesics at corresponding points. The curves \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are said to be a pair of Bertrand curves in \(\mathbb S^3\). The authors obtain some relationships among curvatures and torsions of a pair of Bertrand curves. They show that every plane curve in \(\mathbb S^3\) (i.e. a curve lying in a totally geodesic two-dimensional sphere \(\mathbb S^2\subset\mathbb S^3\)) is a Bertrand curve with infinite Bertrand conjugate plane curves. The authors also give a sort of theorem for Bertrand curves in \(\mathbb S^3\) which formally agrees with the classical one. They prove that Bertrand curves in \(\mathbb S^3\) correspond with curves for which there exist two constants \(\lambda\neq 0\) and \(\mu\) such that \(\lambda\kappa+\mu\tau=1\), where \(\kappa\) and \(\tau\) are the curvature and torsion of the curve. Moreover, the authors give a characterization of helices as the only twisted curves in \(\mathbb S^3\) having infinite Bertrand conjugate curves. The last section of the reviewed paper is devoted to presenting some results that relate Bertrand curves in the sphere \(\mathbb S^3\) and \((1,3)\)-Bertrand curves in \(\mathbb R^4\).