Zeljka Milin SİPUS, Ljiljana Primorac GAJCIC, İvana PROTRKA

Null scrolls as B-scrolls in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space

ISSN: 1300-0098
Yayın Aralığı: 6
Yayıncı: TÜBİTAK

Null scrolls, i.e. ruled surfaces whose base curve and rulings are both lightlike (null), are Lorentzian surfaces having no Euclidean counterparts. In this work we present reparametrization of nondegenerate null scroll as a B-scroll, i.e. as a ruled surface whose rulings correspond to the binormal vectors of a base curve. We prove that the curvature of a base curve, which determines the Gaussian and mean curvature of a null scroll, is invariant under such a reparametrization. We also determine a one-parameter family of null curves on null scroll which serve as base curves for this kind of reparametrization.

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