Intrinsic equations for a relaxed elastic line of second kind in Minkowski 3-space

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Abstract: Let alpha be an arc on a connected oriented surface S in Minkowski 3-space, parameterized by arc length s, with torsion au and length l. The total square torsion H of alpha is defined by %H=int0lau2ds. The arc is called a relaxed elastic line of second kind if it is an extremal for the variational problem of minimizing the value of H within the family of all arcs of length l on S having the same initial point and initial direction as alpha. In this study, we obtain differential equation and boundary conditions for a relaxed elastic line of second kind on an oriented surface in Minkowski 3-space.









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