Curves of constant curvature and torsion in the 3-sphere

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2019.12.235MaRDI QIDQ1624866zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Debraj Chakrabarti, Rahul Sahay, Jared Williams

Publication date 16 November 2018

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07878

zbMATH Keywords

3-spherehelixgeodesic curvatureFrenet-Serret equationsconstant curvature and torsioncurves in the 3-sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35)

Abstract: We describe the curves of constant (geodesic) curvature and torsion in the three-dimensional round sphere. These curves are the trajectory of a point whose motion is the superposition of two circular motions in orthogonal planes. The global behavior may be periodic or the curve may be dense in a Clifford torus embedded in the three-sphere. This behavior is very different from that of helices in three-dimensional Euclidean space, which also have constant curvature and torsion.

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