Spherical curves whose curvature depends on distance to a great circle
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| author | Castro, Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Jesús |
| author_facet | Castro, Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Jesús |
| contents | Motivated by a problem posed by David A. Singer in 1999 and by the elastic spherical curves, we study the spherical curves whose curvature is expressed in terms of the distance to a great circle (or from a point). By introducing the notion of spherical angular momentum, we provide new characterizations of some well known curves, like the mentioned elastic curves, spherical catenaries, loxodromic-type spherical curves, the Viviani's curve, and the spherical Archimedean spirals curves. Furthermore, we show that they may be obtained as critical points of some energy curvature functionals. We also find out several new families of spherical curves whose intrinsic equations are expressed in terms of elementary functions or Jacobi elliptic functions, and we are able to get arc length parametrizations of them. |
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| spellingShingle | Spherical curves whose curvature depends on distance to a great circle Castro, Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Jesús Differential Geometry 53A04 (Primary) 74H05 (Secondary) Motivated by a problem posed by David A. Singer in 1999 and by the elastic spherical curves, we study the spherical curves whose curvature is expressed in terms of the distance to a great circle (or from a point). By introducing the notion of spherical angular momentum, we provide new characterizations of some well known curves, like the mentioned elastic curves, spherical catenaries, loxodromic-type spherical curves, the Viviani's curve, and the spherical Archimedean spirals curves. Furthermore, we show that they may be obtained as critical points of some energy curvature functionals. We also find out several new families of spherical curves whose intrinsic equations are expressed in terms of elementary functions or Jacobi elliptic functions, and we are able to get arc length parametrizations of them. |
| title | Spherical curves whose curvature depends on distance to a great circle |
| topic | Differential Geometry 53A04 (Primary) 74H05 (Secondary) |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00458 |