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Infinitesimal Analysis of an arc in n-space
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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We may develop the idea of principal lines at any point on a curve of (n−1)-triple curvature geometrically in the following way:
Two consecutive points on the curve determine the tangent, three consecutive points the osculating points, four consecutive points the osculating 3-space and so on, at any point on the curve. At the same point we have an (n−1)-space perpendicular to the tangent and we shall call this space the first normal space at the point; the intersection of the first normal space with the osculating plane is a line which we shall name as the first normal at the point. Similarly all lines perpendicular to the osculating plane determine an (n−2)-space, the second normal space at the point, and the inter-section of this space with the osculating 3-space is the second normal at the point. Proceeding thus we have lastly the (n−1)th normal which is perpendicular to the osculating (n−1)-space at the point. We thus see that the rth normal lies in the osculating (r+1)-space and is perpendicular to r consecutive tangents. These n−1 normals with the tangent constitute the n principal lines at the point which are mutually orthogonal.
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page 150 note 1 Veronese :— “Fondamenti di Geometria etc.”, translated into German by Adolf Schepp, “Grundzüge der Geometrie etc.”, §174, Stz. III.Google Scholar
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page 151 note 1 These formulae have been deduced for curves in four dimensional space, by Prof.Hardie, J. G., in the American Journal of Math., 24, and alsoGoogle Scholar, from a different standpoint, by Prof.Mookerjee, S. D. in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Math. Soc., 1. 1909.Google Scholar
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page 156 note 1 A number of formulae of similar kind for curves of double curvature are given in a memoir by Saint-Venant, M., Journal de I'Ecole Polytechnique, Cahier XXX.Google Scholar
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page 157 note 2 It will be seen that the expression for cot2φr will contain cot2φ3, cot2φ4, … cot2φr−2; and if cot φr−1 is a function of ρr−2, ρr−3, … ρ1, cot φr−3, … cot φ3, then cot φr will contain the same function of ρr−1, ρr−2, … ρ2, cot φr−2, … cot φ4.
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