On the space of oriented affine lines in R^3

DOI10.1007/S00013-003-4861-3MaRDI QIDQ1880191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg

Publication date 22 September 2004

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405189

zbMATH Keywords

normal line congruencetwistor correspondencetwistor space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55)

Abstract: We introduce a local coordinate description for the correspondence between the space of oriented affine lines in Euclidean ${BbbR}^3$ and the tangent bundle to the 2-sphere. These can be utilised to give canonical coordinates on surfaces in ${BbbR}^3$, as we illustrate with a number of explicit examples.

Review text

Let \(\mathcal L\) be the set of oriented lines of the real Euclidean \(3\)-space \(E^3\) and \(TS^2\) the tangent bundle of the unit sphere \(S^2\). Given an origin in \(E^3\), each \(\ell\in\mathcal L\) is uniquely described by a unit vector \(\vec W\) in the oriented direction of \(\ell\) and the perpendicular displacement \(\vec U\) of \(\ell\) from the origin. The mapping \(\Lambda:{\mathcal L}\rightarrow\,TS^2, \ell\mapsto(\vec U,\vec W)\) is bijective; \(\Lambda^{-1}=:\Phi\) (``twistor correspondence). Using holomorphic coordinates on \(TS^2\) the authors provide a local representation of \(\Phi\) which is applicable in the study of normal line congruences [cf. \textit{B.~Guilfoyle} and \textit{W.~Klingenberg}, Generalised surfaces in \({\mathbb R}^3\), Math. Proc. R.I.A. 104A(2), (2004)[math.DG/0406185]] and reflection geometry [cf. \textit{B.~Guilfoyle} and \textit{W.~Klingenberg}, SIAM J. Appl. Math. (2003)[math.DG/0406212]].

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