Closed curves in \((\mathbb{R}^{3})\) with prescribed curvature and torsion in perturbative cases. Part 2: Sufficient conditions (Q997584)

Summary: We investigate the problem of \((\kappa, \tau)\)-loops, that is, closed curves in the three-dimensional Euclidean space with prescribed curvature \(\kappa\) and torsion \(\tau\). In particular we focus on some perturbative cases, taking \(\kappa = \kappa_{\varepsilon} (p)\) and \(\tau = \tau_{\varepsilon} (p)\) with \(\kappa_{\varepsilon}\) and \(\tau_{\varepsilon}\) converging to the constants 1 and 0, respectively, as \(\varepsilon \to 0\). We prove existence of branches of \((\kappa_{\varepsilon}, \tau_{\varepsilon})\)-loops (for small \(|\varepsilon|\)) emanating from circles which correspond to stable zeroes of a suitable vector field \(M: \mathbb{T}^{2} \times \mathbb{R}^{3} \to \mathbb{R}^{5}\).