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Curves and singularities, by J. W. Bruce and P. J. Giblin. Pp 222. 1984. ISBN 0-521-24945-7 (Hardback) £25, 27091-X (Paperback) £8·95 (Cambridge University Press)

Singularities of caustics and wave fronts

We give a moving frame of a Legendre curve (or, a frontal) in the unit tangent bundle and define a pair of smooth functions of a Legendre curve like as the curvature of a regular plane curve. It is quite useful to analyse the Legendre curves. The existence and uniqueness for Legendre curves hold similarly to the case of regular plane curves. As an application, we consider contact between Legendre curves and the arc-length parameter of Legendre immersions in the unit tangent bundle.

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Existence and uniqueness for Legendre curves

Abstract A framed curve in the Euclidean space is a curve with a moving frame. It is a generalization not only of regular curves with linear independent condition, but also of Legendre curves in the unit tangent bundle. We define smooth functions for a framed curve, called the curvature of the framed curve, similarly to the curvature of a regular curve and of a Legendre curve. Framed curves may have singularities. The curvature of the framed curve is quite useful to analyse the framed curves and their singularities. In fact, we give the existence and the uniqueness for the framed curves by using their curvature. As applications, we consider a contact between framed curves, and give a relationship between projections of framed space curves and Legendre curves.

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Framed curves in the Euclidean space

We have already defined the evolutes and the involutes of fronts without inflection points. For regular curves or fronts, we can not define the evolutes at inflection points. On the other hand, the involutes can be defined at inflection points. In this case, the involute is not a front but a frontal at inflection points. We define evolutes of frontals under conditions. The definition is a generalisation of both evolutes of regular curves and of fronts. By using relationship between evolutes and involutes of frontals, we give an existence condition of the evolute with inflection points. We also give properties of evolutes and involutes of frontals.

Evolutes and Involutes of Frontals in the Euclidean Plane

A framed curve is a smooth curve in the Euclidean space with a moving frame. We call the smooth curve in the Euclidean space the framed base curve. In this paper, we give an existence condition of framed curves. Actually, we construct a framed curve such that the image of the framed base curve coincides with the image of a given smooth curve under a condition. As a consequence, polygons in the Euclidean plane can be realised as not only a smooth curve but also a framed base curve.

Existence conditions of framed curves for smooth curves

The purpose of this paper is to give the homotopy classification of nanophrases of length 2 with 4 letters. To do it we construct some new invariants of nanophrases γ and T. The invariant γ defined in this paper is an extension of the invariant γ for nanowords introduced by Turaev. The invariant T is a new invariant of nanophrases. As a corollary of these results, we give the classification of two-component pointed, ordered, oriented curves on surfaces with minimum crossing number less than or equal to 2.

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Homotopy classification of nanophrases in turaev's theory of words

In this paper we give the stable classification of ordered, pointed, oriented multi-component curves on surfaces with minimal crossing number less than or equal to 2 such that any equivalent curve has no simply closed curves in its components. To do this, we use the theory of words and phrases which was introduced by V. Turaev. Indeed we give the homotopy classification of nanophrases with less than or equal to 4 letters. It is an extension of the classification of nanophrases of length 2 with less than or equal to 4 letters which was given by the author in a previous paper. This is a corrected version of Hokkaido University Preprint Series in Mathematics #921. I corrected the subsection 5.3 and added proofs of propositions.

Homotopy classification of nanophrases with less than or equal to four letters

Framed surfaces and one-parameter families of framed curves in Euclidean 3-space

For a regular plane curve, an involute of it is the trajectory described by the end of a stretched string unwinding from a point of the curve. Even for a regular curve, the involute always has a singularity. By using a moving frame along the front and the curvature of the Legendre immersion in the unit tangent bundle, we define an involute of the front in the Euclidean plane and give properties of it. We also consider a relationship between evolutes and involutes of fronts without inflection points. As a result, the evolutes and the involutes of fronts without inflection points are corresponding to the differential and the integral of the curvature of the Legendre immersion.

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Tomonori Fukunaga

Papers

Existence conditions of framed curves for smooth curves

Homotopy classification of nanophrases in turaev's theory of words

Homotopy classification of nanophrases with less than or equal to four letters

Framed surfaces and one-parameter families of framed curves in Euclidean 3-space

Involutes of fronts in the Euclidean plane