Null Frenet-Serret Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
2016-06-17 v1 Differential Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
We consider the Frenet-Serret geometry of null curves in a three and a four-dimensional Minkowski background. We develop a theory of deformations adapted to the Frenet-Serret frame. We exploit it to provide a Lagrangian description of the dynamics of geometric models for null curves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0702042,
title = {Null Frenet-Serret Dynamics},
author = {Riccardo Capovilla and Jemal Guven and Efrain Rojas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0702042},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures, RevTex. Dedicated to Mike Ryan on his sixtieth birthday