On the geometry of curves and conformal geodesics in the Möbius space

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9250-8MaRDI QIDQ634702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Magliaro, Luciano Mari, M. Rigoli

Publication date 16 August 2011

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5776

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationconformal arc-length functionalconformal geodesicMöbius geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Other special differential geometries (53A40) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

Abstract: This paper deals with the study of some properties of immersed curves in the conformal sphere $mathds{Q}_n$, viewed as a homogeneous space under the action of the M"obius group. After an overview on general well-known facts, we briefly focus on the links between Euclidean and conformal curvatures, in the spirit of F. Klein's Erlangen program. The core of the paper is the study of conformal geodesics, defined as the critical points of the conformal arclength functional. After writing down their Euler-Lagrange equations for any $n$, we prove an interesting codimension reduction, namely that every conformal geodesic in $mathds{Q}_n$ lies, in fact, in a totally umbilical 4-sphere $mathds{Q}_4$. We then extend and complete the work in (Musso, "The conformal arclength functional", Math Nachr.) by solving the Euler-Lagrange equations for the curvatures and by providing an explicit expression even for those conformal geodesics not included in any conformal 3-sphere.

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