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48 results for Spherical curves

Study spherical curves with curvature dependent on distance to a great circle.

problem Understanding spherical curves with curvature dependent on distance to a great circle.
method Introducing spherical angular momentum, characterizing known curves, finding new families, and obtaining arc length parametrizations.
result New families of spherical curves with intrinsic equations in elementary or Jacobi elliptic functions.

The reductivity of a spherical curve represents how reduced the spherical curve is. It is unknown if there exists a spherical curve whose reductivity is four. In this paper we give an unavoidable set for spherical curves with reductivity four by considering 4-gons.

2016-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The reductivity of a spherical curve is the minimal number of a local transformation called an inverse-half-twisted splice required to obtain a reducible spherical curve from the spherical curve. It is unknown if there exists a spherical curve whose reductivity is four. In this paper, an unavoidable set of configuratio…

2017-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that we can obtain a reducible spherical curve from any non-trivial spherical curve by four or less inverse-half-twisted splices, i.e., the reductivity, which represents how reduced a spherical curve is, is four or less. We also discuss unavoidable sets of tangles for spherical curves.

2014-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores geometric properties of interception curves on planes and spheres.

problem Geometric properties of interception curves defined by differential equations.
method Parametric representation and spherical curve defined by Gudermannian function.
result Symmetry/asymmetry between spherical and planar cases, connections to lemniscate constants.

Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere via spherical curves.

problem Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.
method Continuous function of distance to axis, spherical angular momentum of spherical curves.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.

In this work, we studied the properties of the spherical indicatrices of a Bertrand curve and its mate curve and presented some characteristic properties in the cases that Bertrand curve and its mate curve are slant helices, spherical indicatrices are slant helices and we also researched that whether the spherical indi…

2011-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a complete description of all order 1 invariants of spherical curves. We also identify the subspaces of all J-invariants and S-invariants, and present two equalities satisfied by any spherical curve.

2007-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies surfaces with spherical curvature lines and their generation by constrained elastic curves.

problem Understanding surfaces with spherical curvature lines and their generation mechanisms.
method The approach involves Lie sphere transformations, Legendre curves, and polynomial conserved quantities of connections.
result Lie applicable surfaces with exactly one family of spherical curvature lines are generated by the lift of constrained elastic curves.

Study null surfaces of pseudo-spherical curves in anti-de Sitter space.

problem Characterize null surfaces of pseudo-spherical spacelike framed curves in anti-de Sitter 3-space.
method Introduced nullcone fronts, classified singularities, defined Anti-de Sitter distance-squared functions.
result Relate singularities of nullcone fronts to those of framed curves.

In this paper, new representations of a Bertrand curve pair in three dimensional Lie groups with bi-invariant metric are given. Besides, the spherical indicatrices of a Bertrand curve pair are obtain and the relations between the spherical indicatrices and new representations of Bertrand curve pair are shown.

2018-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we define some new associated curves as integral curves of a vector field generated by Frenet vectors of tangent indicatrix of a curve in Euclidean 3-space. We give some relationships between curvatures of these curves. By using these associated curves, we give some methods to construct helices and slant…

2018-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, it is shown that for an nn-dimensional spherical unit speed curve γ:ISnγ: I\to S^n, a given point PSnP \in S^n and a point s0s_0 of the open interval II, the spherical orthotomic curve-germ ortγ,P:(I,s0)Snort_{γ, P}: (I, s_0)\to S^n of γγ relative to PP is L\mathcal{L}-equivalent to the spherical pedal curve-germ $p…

2019-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article, we investigate Bertrand curves corresponding to the spherical images of the tangent, binormal, principal normal and Darboux indicatrices of a space curve in Euclidean 3-space. As a result, in case of a space curve is a general helix, we show that the curves corresponding to the spherical images of its …

2010-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper characterizes curves in pseudo-Galilean 4-space.

problem Characterizing curves in the pseudo-Galilean 4-space G14G_{1}^{4}.
method Investigation and characterisation of admissible curves in terms of curvature functions.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for admissible rectifying curves in G14G_{1}^{4}.

In this paper, we investigate a curve whose spherical image the tangent indicatrix and binormal indicatrix is slant helix and called it as a slant helix. We obtain that the spherical images are spherical slant helices defined by [3]. This notation is a generalization of a slant helix. Furthermore, we have given some ch…

2013-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Nearly spherical, positively curved surfaces are mapped from a sphere.

problem Mapping nearly spherical, positively curved surfaces from a sphere.
method Combines Ricci flow, Kim-Milman construction, and Bakry-Émery criterion.
result Every nearly spherical, positively curved surface is the contractive image of a round sphere.

It is known that the so-called rotation minimizing (RM) frames allow for a simple and elegant characterization of geodesic spherical curves in Euclidean, hyperbolic, and spherical spaces through a certain linear equation involving the coefficients that dictate the RM frame motion (da Silva, da Silva in Mediterr J Math …

2018-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on evolutes and focal surfaces of pseudo-spherical framed immersions in anti-de Sitter space.

problem Investigating singularities of evolutes and focal surfaces of pseudo-spherical framed immersions.
method Introduced pseudo-spherical non-null framed curves, defined moving frames, and analyzed evolutes and focal surfaces.
result Evolutes of pseudo-spherical framed immersions are the sets of singular points of their focal surfaces.

We show that the maximal number of singular moves required to pass between any two regularly homotopic planar or spherical curves with at most n crossings, grows quadratically with respect to n. Furthermore, this can be done with all curves along the way having at most n+2 crossings.

2008-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the spherical indicatrices of W-direction curves in three dimensional Euclidean space which were defined by using the unit Darboux vector field W of a Frenet curve, in [11]. We obtain the Frenet apparatus of these spherical indicatrix curves and the characterizations of being general helix and s…

2015-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper defines functions from spherical curves and chord diagrams, proving invariance under specific Reidemeister moves.

problem Defining and proving invariance of functions derived from spherical curves and chord diagrams.
method Introducing iαixi\sum_i α_i x_i and iαiildexi\sum_i α_i ilde{x}_i functions, and defining relators of Type (I) ((SII), (WII), (SIII), or (WIII), resp.).
result If iαiildexi\sum_i α_i ilde{x}_i vanishes for the relators of Type (I) ((SII), (WII), (SIII), or (WIII), resp.), then iαixi\sum_i α_i x_i is invariant under specific Reidemeister moves.

Fold maps associated to geodesic random walks on curved spaces.

problem Understanding the behavior of geodesic random walks on curved surfaces.
method Analyzing mappings from the unit tangent sphere to a manifold with non-positive curvature.
result For odd powers of the unit tangent sphere, these mappings are fold maps.