Conformal trajectories in 3-dimensional space form
Differential Geometry
2024-05-28 v1
Abstract
We introduce the notion of conformal trajectories in three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds . Given a conformal vector field , a conformal trajectory of is a regular curve in satisfying , for some fixed non-zero constant . In this paper, we study conformal trajectories in the space forms , and . For (non-Killing) conformal vector fields in (respectively in ), we prove that conformal trajectories have constant curvature and its torsion is a linear combination of trigonometric (respectively hyperbolic) functions on the arc-length parameter. In the case of Euclidean space , we obtain the same result for the radial vector field and characterising all conformal trajectories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.15890,
title = {Conformal trajectories in 3-dimensional space form},
author = {Rafael Lopez and Marian Ioan Munteanu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15890},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
13 pages, 9 figures