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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1554183
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1554183 |
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17 January 2001
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spherical indicatrix
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mapping degree
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linking number
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Euler number
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winding number
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total torsion
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athwart curves
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0.748921275138855
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0.7462545037269592
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0.7324464917182922
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0.7276055216789246
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0.725946843624115
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A spherical indicatrix of a smooth immersion into Euclidean space is given by the intersections of the rays of a half-line bundle over the immersion with a sphere enclosing the image of the immersion. In the case of codimension 1 the mapping degree of the normal indicatrix and of indicatrices of other ray fields, which are nowhere tangential, are compared with the Euler number of the manifold. Further special results are obtained for closed planar curves. In the case of a pair of closed space curves the study of indicatrices is applied to characterize vanishing linking numbers and to the construction of curves avoiding the locus of tangent lines of a given curve. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00032].
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