Thread configurations for ellipsoids

MaRDI QIDQ5367177zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ion I. Dincă

Publication date 12 October 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1421

zbMATH Keywords

thread construction(confocal) quadrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Other complex differential geometry (53C56)

Abstract: We discuss Darboux-Staude type of thread configurations for the ellipsoid similar to Chasles-Graves type of thread configurations for the ellipse. These threads are formed by rectilinear segments, geodesic and line of curvature segments on the considered ellipsoid and with tangents tangent to the given ellipsoid and a fixed confocal hyperboloid with one sheet and preserve constant length when the vertices of the configuration move on confocal ellipsoids.

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