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We investigate the vertex curve, that is the set of points in the hyperbolic region of a smooth surface in real 3-space at which there is a circle in the tangent plane having at least 5-point contact with the surface. The vertex curve is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Peter Giblin , Graham Reeve , Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

In this paper we characterize concircular helices in $R^3$ by means of a differential equation involving their curvature and torsion. We find a full description of concircular surfaces in $R^3$ as a special family of ruled surfaces, and we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Pascual Lucas , José Antonio Ortega-Yagües

In this paper, we consider a regular curve on an oriented surface in Euclidean 3-space with the Darboux frame $\{\mathsf{T},\mathsf{V},\mathsf{U}\}$ along the curve, where $\mathsf{T}$ is the unit tangent vector field of the curve,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Nesibe Macit , Mustafa Düldül

In n-dimensional Euclidean space E^n, harmonic curvatures of a non-degenerate curve defined by \"Ozdamar and Hacisaliho\u{g}lu [4]. In this paper, We define a new type of curves called LC helix when the angle between tangent of this curve…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-12 Ali Senol , Evren Ziplar , Yusuf Yayli

Consider the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ endowed with a canonical semi-symmetric non-metric connection determined by a vector field $\mathsf{C}\in\mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. We study surfaces when the sectional curvature with respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López , Adela Mihai

The present paper deals with some characterizations of rectifying and osculating curves on a smooth surface with respect to the reference frame $\{\vec{T},\ \vec{N},\ \vec{T}\times\vec{N}\}$. We have computed the components of position…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Absos Ali Shaikh , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh

In this study, we define a new type of direction curves in the Euclidean 3-space such as osculating-direction curve. We give the characterizations for these curves. Moreover, we obtain the relationships between osculating direction curves…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Mehmet Önder , Sezai Kızıltuğ

In this article, we investigate Bertrand curves corresponding to the spherical images of the tangent, binormal, principal normal and Darboux indicatrices of a space curve in Euclidean 3-space. As a result, in case of a space curve is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-01 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

In classical curve theory, the geometry of a curve in three dimensions is essentially characterized by their invariants, curvature and torsion. When they are given, the problem of finding a corresponding curve is known as 'solving natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Toni Menninger

Of concern is the study of the space of curves in homogeneous spaces. Motivated by applications in shape analysis we identify two curves if they only differ by their parametrization and/or a rigid motion. For curves in Euclidean space the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Zhe Su , Eric Klassen , Martin Bauer

Curves in ${\mathbb R}^n$ for which the ratios between two consecutive curvatures are constant are characterized by the fact that their tangent indicatrix is a geodesic in a flat torus. For $n= 3,4$, spherical curves of this kind are also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Monterde

The {\em focal curve} of an immersed smooth curve $\gamma:s\mapsto \gamma(s)$, in Euclidean space $\R^{m+1}$, consists of the centres of its osculating hyperspheres. The focal curve may be parametrised in terms of the Frenet frame of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

Geometric frameworks for analyzing curves are common in applications as they focus on invariant features and provide visually satisfying solutions to standard problems such as computing invariant distances, averaging curves, or registering…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-24 Perrine Chassat , Juhyun Park , Nicolas Brunel

We consider a unit speed curve $\alpha$ in Euclidean four-dimensional space $E^4$ and denote the Frenet frame by $\{T,N,B_1,B_2\}$. We say that $\alpha$ is a slant helix if its principal normal vector $N$ makes a constant angle with a fixed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Ahmad T. Ali , Rafael López

In this paper, we classify helix (spacelike, timelike and null) curves, directed by the geodesic flow vector field, on the (3-dimensional) unit tangent bundle of a pseudo-Riemannian surface of constant Gaussian curvature endowed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Mohamed Tahar Kadaoui Abbassi , Khadija Boulagouaz

In this paper, we give smoe characterizations of relatively normal-slant helices and isophotic curves on a smooth surface immersed in Euclidean 3-space with respect to their position vevtor. We also introduce the methods for generating an…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Akhilesh Yadav , Buddhadev Pal

There are three complete plane geometries of constant curvature: spherical, Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry. We explain how a closed oriented surface can carry a geometry which locally looks like one of these. Focussing on the hyperbolic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Peter B. Gothen

We give necessary and sufficient conditions on the curvature and the torsion of a regular curve of the space forms $\h^3$ and $\s^3$ to be contained in a totally umbilical surface. In case that the curve has constant torsion, we obtain the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Rafael López

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of invariancy of rectifying curve under conformal transformation and obtain a sufficient condition for which such a curve remains conformally invariant. It is shown that the normal…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Absos Ali Shaikh , Mohamd Saleem Lone , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh

We study homogeneous curves on some classes of reductive homogeneous spaces G=H which are geodesics with respect to any G-invariant metric on G=H. These curves are called equigeodesics. The spaces we consider are certain Stiefel manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Marina Statha