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Mannheim Curves in the three-dimensional Sphere

Differential Geometry 2015-09-18 v1

Abstract

Mannheim curves are defined for immersed curves in 3-dimensional sphere S^3 . The definition is given by considering the geodesics of S^3. First, two special geodesics, called principal normal geodesic and binormal geodesic, of S^3 are defined by using Frenet vectors of a curve immersed in S^3. Later, the curve alpha is called a Mannheim curve if there exits another curve beta in S^3 such that the principal normal geodesics of beta coincide with the binormal geodesics of S^3 . It is obtained that if alpha and beta form a Mannheim pair then there exist a constant lambda that is not equal 0 and a non-constant function Mu such that Lambda.(kappa_alpha)+M(Tau_alpha)=1 where kappa_alpha, Tau_alpha are the curvatures of alpha. Moreover, the relation between a Mannheim curve immersed in S^3 and a generalized Mannheim curve in E^4 is obtained and a table containing comparison of Bertrand and Mannheim curves in S^3 is introduced.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.05170,
  title  = {Mannheim Curves in the three-dimensional Sphere},
  author = {Tanju Kahraman and Mehmet Onder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05170},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages

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