scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1554183

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Authors Sheila Carter, F. J. Craveiro de Carvalho

Publication date 17 January 2001

Full work available at URL http://www.emis.de/proceedings/Coimbra99/8.html

zbMATH Keywords

athwart curvesEuler numberlinking numbermapping degreespherical indicatrixtotal torsionwinding number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Review text

A spherical indicatrix of a smooth immersion into Euclidean space is given by the intersections of the rays of a half-line bundle over the immersion with a sphere enclosing the image of the immersion. In the case of codimension 1 the mapping degree of the normal indicatrix and of indicatrices of other ray fields, which are nowhere tangential, are compared with the Euler number of the manifold. Further special results are obtained for closed planar curves. In the case of a pair of closed space curves the study of indicatrices is applied to characterize vanishing linking numbers and to the construction of curves avoiding the locus of tangent lines of a given curve. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00032].

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