On rectification of circles and an extension of Beltrami's theorem

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069712MaRDI QIDQ2566528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Farzali Izadi

Publication date 26 September 2005

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301220

zbMATH Keywords

bundle of circles Lie group Möbius transformation representation of Beltrami's theorem Stiefel-Whitney class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to describe all local diffeomorphisms mapping a family of circles, in an open subset of

^{3}

, into straight lines. This paper contains two main results. The first is a complete description of the rectifiable collection of circles in

^{3}

passing through one point. It turns out that to be rectifiable all circles need to pass through some other common point. The second main result is a complete description of geometries in

^{3}

in which all the geodesics are circles. This is a consequence of an extension of Beltrami's theorem by replacing straight lines with circles.}

Review text

One considers a bundle of circles and proves the following theorem 1.1: Consider a simple handle of circles passing through the origin such that the set of tangent lines of the circles contains 54 generic lines, then there exists a local diffeomorphism about the origin mapping all the circles into straight lines if and only if all circles in the bundle pass through one common point distinct from the origin. One classifies the rich families of circles and proves that up to a projective transformation of the space of the image and a Möbius transformation of the space of the inverse image, there exist exactly three diffeomorphism classes of rectifiable rich families of circles.

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