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A characterization of involutes and evolutes of a given curve in $\mathbb{E}^{n}$

Differential Geometry 2016-04-26 v1

Abstract

The orthogonal trajectories of the first tangents of the curve are called the involutes of xx. The hyperspheres which have higher order contact with a curve xx are known osculating hyperspheres of xx. The centers of osculating hyperspheres form a curve which is called generalized evolute of the given curve xx in nn-dimensional Euclidean space En\mathbb{E}^{n}. In the present study, we give a characterization of involute curves of order kk (resp. evolute curves) of the given curve xx in nn-dimensional Euclidean space En\mathbb{E}^{n}. Further, we obtain some results on these type of curves in E3\mathbb{E}^{3} and E4\mathbb{E}^{4}, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07346,
  title  = {A characterization of involutes and evolutes of a given curve in $\mathbb{E}^{n}$},
  author = {Günay Öztürk and Kadri Arslan and Betü Bulca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07346},
  year   = {2016}
}