A note on binary quintic forms and lines of principal curvature on surfaces in R^5

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.09.032MaRDI QIDQ664678zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas, Farid Tari

Publication date 2 March 2012

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2011.09.032

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic curvesbinary formscovariantlines of principal curvatureself-adjoint operatorsshape operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Forms of degree higher than two (11E76) Implicit ordinary differential equations, differential-algebraic equations (34A09) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

Review text

The paper deals with lines of principal curvature on a smooth surface \(M\) in the Euclidean 5-space \({\mathbb R}^5\). The definition of principal curvature lines of such a surface \(M\) is based on the metric structure of \(M\) as well as on quintic binary forms and their covariants of degree 2. The authors use the fact that there exist exactly three such covariants: \(C_{2,2}\), \(C_{6,2}\), \(C_{8,2}\). Each of them yields a binary quadratic equation whose solution curves establish a family of principal curvature lines (\(C_{i,2}\)-lines, \(i=2,6,8\)) of \(M\). Some properties of those curve families are derived. For instance, the authors prove that the \(C_{i,2}\)-lines neither depend on the choice of the local parametrization nor on the chosen coordinate frame.

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