SOME CHARACTERIZATIONS OF SLANT AND SPHERICAL HELICES DUE TO SABBAN FRAME

In this paper, we are investigating that under which conditions of the geodesic curvature of unit speed curve γ that lies on the unit sphere, the curve c which is obtained by using γ, is a spherical helix or slant helix.

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