A STUDY ON INEXTENSIBLE FLOWS OF SPHERICAL CURVES
TUNAHAN TURHAN *
Necmettin Erbakan University, Seydisehir Vocational School, 42360 Konya, Turkey.
NIHAT AYYILDIZ
Department of Mathematics, Suleyman Demirel University, 32260 Isparta, Turkey.
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Abstract
In this paper, we give some theorems and general formulation for inextensible flows of spherical curves using its geodesic frame in 3—dimensional Euclidean space. Necessary and sucient conditions for inextensible curve ows are expressed as a partial dierential equation involving the geodesic curvature.
Keywords: Curvature function, curvature flow, geodesic frame, inextensible, torsion function.