A variational characterization and geometric integration for Bertrand curves

DOI10.1063/1.4800767zbMath1283.53012MaRDI QIDQ5397797

José Antonio Ortega-Yagües, Pascual Lucas

Publication date: 24 February 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4800767

zbMATH Keywords

constant curvature; constant torsion; Darboux vector field; Lancret curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

53A35: Non-Euclidean differential geometry

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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