Curvatures, volumes and norms of derivatives for curves in Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.06.013MaRDI QIDQ720669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eugene Gutkin

Publication date 11 October 2011

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2960

zbMATH Keywords

curvaturesmultiple vector productsPoincaré dualitySerret-Frenet equationstwo-point homogeneous spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

Abstract: The well known formulas express the curvature and the torsion of a curve in $R^3$ in terms of euclidean invariants of its derivatives. We obtain expressions of this kind for all curvatures of curves in $R^n$. It follows that a curve in $R^n$ is determined up to an isometry by the norms of its n derivatives. We extend these observations to curves in arbitrary riemannian manifolds.

Review text

Consider a differentiable curve \(c:I\subset {\mathbb R}\rightarrow {\mathbb R}^{n}\) with linearly independent derivatives \(c',c,\dots,c^{(n-1)}\) at every point and denote \(\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_{n-1}\) the curvature functions. Together with the length of the tangent vector \(c'\) these functions are well known to be a complete set of invariants. The main result of the present paper are the expressions of the curvature functions by volumes of sets of vectors \(c',c,\dots,c^{(n-1)}\). More precisely, it is proved that the following holds: The curvature functions satisfy \[ \kappa_r={{\mathrm{vol}(c',c,\dots,c^{(r-1)})\,\mathrm{vol}(c',c,\dots,c^{(r+1)})}\over {\mathrm{vol}(c',c,\dots,c^{(r)})^2}}\|c'\|^{-1}, (1\leq r\leq n-2) \] and \[ \kappa_{n-1}={{\mathrm{vol}(c',c,\dots,c^{(n-2)})\,\det(c',c,\dots,c^{(n)})}\over {\mathrm{vol}(c',c,\dots,c^{(n-1)})^2}}\|c'\|^{-1}. \] As the author points out these results are not new, but derived in a more direct way as usual. Furthermore the results are extended to Riemannian manifolds replacing the differentiation in \({\mathbb R}^{n}\) by the Riemannian covariant differentiation.

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