Approximations of periodic functions to R ^n by curvatures of closed curves

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9812-3MaRDI QIDQ387570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacob Mostovoy, Rustam Sadykov

Publication date 23 December 2013

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5892

zbMATH Keywords

\(h\)-principlecurvaturesFrenet frame

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

Abstract: We show that for any n real periodic functions f_1,..., f_n with the same period, such that f_i>0 for i<n, and a real number e >0, there is a closed curve in R^{n+1} with curvatures k_1, ..., k_n such that |k_i(t)-f_i(t)| < e for all i and t. This neither holds for closed curves in the hyperbolic space H^{n+1}, nor for parametric families of closed curves in R^{n+1}.

Review text

It is known that every closed Frenet curve \(\alpha:S^1\rightarrow\mathbb R^{n+1}\) gives rise to the curvature-like function \(j_\alpha:S^1\rightarrow\mathbb R_+^{n-1}\times\mathbb R\), defined by \(j_\alpha(t)=(k_1^\alpha(t),\ldots ,k_n^\alpha(t)),\) where \(k_1^\alpha,\ldots ,k_n^\alpha\) are the curvatures of the curve \(\alpha\). A curvature-like function \(s\) having the form \(j_\alpha\), for some curve \(\alpha\), is called holonomic. Given a curvature like-function \(s\) and a real number \(\varepsilon>0\), then a closed curve \(\alpha\) is said to be a holonomic \(\varepsilon\)-approximation of \(s\) if \(j_\alpha\) is \(\varepsilon\)-close to \(s\). In the paper under review, the authors prove that every curvature-like function admits a holonomic \(\varepsilon\)-approximation for every \(\varepsilon\).

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