On Frenet Apparatus of Curves in Rn

Authors

  • Isnaldo Barbosa UFAL
  • JoséAdonai Pereira Seixas UFAL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14244/lajm.v1i01.3

Keywords:

curve, Frenet apparatus, curvature, hypersurfaces

Abstract

In this paper, we present new explicit and nonrecursive formulas for the curvatures and the frame of Frenet of a regular curve with an arbitrary parameter in the Euclidean space Rn, n > 2, expressed only in terms of its derivatives.

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Published

12/20/2022

How to Cite

[1]
Barbosa, I. and Seixas, J.A. 2022. On Frenet Apparatus of Curves in Rn. Latin American Journal of Mathematics. 1, 01 (Dec. 2022), 40–76. DOI:https://doi.org/10.14244/lajm.v1i01.3.

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