Ribaucour coordinates

DOI10.1007/S13366-018-0391-9MaRDI QIDQ1728765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Francis E. Burstall, Udo Hertrich-Jeromin, M. Lara Miro

Publication date 26 February 2019

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04605

zbMATH Keywords

canal surfacechannel surfacecircular netcurvature line netdiscrete principal netRibaucour coordinatesRibaucour transformationsemi-discrete surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K35) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17) Computing methodologies for information systems (hypertext navigation, interfaces, decision support, etc.) (68U35)

Abstract: We discuss results for the Ribaucour transformation of curves or of higher dimensional smooth and discrete submanifolds. In particular, a result for the reduction of the ambient dimension of a submanifold is proved and the notion of Ribaucour coordinates is derived using a Bianchi permutability result. Further, we discuss smoothing of semi-discrete curvature line nets and an interpolation by Ribaucour transformations.

Review text

First, the authors present several results for the Ribaucour transformation of curves and then discuss whether and how these generalize to higher dimensions: a reduction of the ambient dimension by means of Ribaucour transformation, which leads to Ribaucour coordinates; smoothing of a sequence of Ribaucour transforms; and the possibility of an interpolation between curves or submanifolds by means of a sequence of Ribaucour transformations. Each of these problems is addressed in both the smooth and discrete settings. The principal purpose of the paper under review is to provide a more direct geometric approach to generalized Ribaucour coordinates. A geometric method to reduce the ambient dimension of a curve or submanifold by means of a Ribaucour transformation into a hypersphere is obtained. Once the dimension reduction is established, the higher co-dimension version of Ribaucour coordinates relies on a Bianchi permutability result. Finally, the authors prove that any two (smooth or discrete) curves can be transformed into each other by a sequence of Ribaucour transforms.

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