Abstract
A framed curve in the Euclidean space is a curve with a moving frame. It is a generalization not only of regular curves with linear independent condition, but also of Legendre curves in the unit tangent bundle. We define smooth functions for a framed curve, called the curvature of the framed curve, similarly to the curvature of a regular curve and of a Legendre curve. Framed curves may have singularities. The curvature of the framed curve is quite useful to analyse the framed curves and their singularities. In fact, we give the existence and the uniqueness for the framed curves by using their curvature. As applications, we consider a contact between framed curves, and give a relationship between projections of framed space curves and Legendre curves.
Communicated by: K. Ono
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Article
- Framed curves in the Euclidean space
- Research Article
- A characterization of the rate of change ofФ-entropy via an integral form curvature-dimension condition
- Research Article
- On the density function on moduli spaces of toric 4-manifolds
- Research Article
- Conformal Ricci solitons and related integrability conditions
- Research Article
- Inequalities for casorati curvatures of submanifolds in real space forms
- Research Article
- Inequalities for hyperconvex sets
- Research Article
- Neighborly inscribed polytopes and delaunay triangulations
- Research Article
- Cellular homology of real maximal isotropic grassmannians
- Research Article
- Symmetric subspaces of SE(3)
- Research Article
- Clifford’s Theorem for graphs