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Spherical orthotomic curve-germs

Geometric Topology 2019-01-15 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, it is shown that for an nn-dimensional spherical unit speed curve γ:ISn\gamma: 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_{\gamma, P}: (I, s_0)\to S^n of γ\gamma relative to PP is L\mathcal{L}-equivalent to the spherical pedal curve-germ pedγ,P:(I,s0)Snped_{\gamma, P}: (I, s_0)\to S^n of γ\gamma relative to PP (resp., the spherical dual curve-germ un:(I,s0)Sn{\bf u}_n: (I, s_0)\to S^n of γ\gamma) if and only if P±un(s0)P\ne \pm{\bf u}_n(s_0) (resp., if P=±un(s0)P= \pm{\bf u}_n(s_0)).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1901.04150,
  title  = {Spherical orthotomic curve-germs},
  author = {Xihe Liu and Takashi Nishimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04150},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures

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