Characterizations of Normal and Binormal Surfaces in G3
Dae Won Yoon, Zuhal Kucukarslan Yuzbasi

TL;DR
This paper characterizes certain surfaces in Galilean 3-space where specific geodesic-based constructions yield minimal surfaces and surfaces with constant negative Gaussian curvature, identifying them as planes or hyperboloids.
Contribution
It introduces a novel characterization of normal and binormal surfaces in G3 linked to geodesic properties and minimal surface conditions.
Findings
Surfaces with four geodesics through each point are either planes or circular hyperboloids.
Constructed surfaces from normal and binormal lines exhibit minimal surface and negative Gaussian curvature properties.
The key surface $ta$ must be isoparametric in G3.
Abstract
In this paper, our aim is to give surfaces in the Galilean 3-space G3 with the property that there exist four geodesics through each point such that every surface built with the normal lines and the binormal lines along these geodesics is a surface with a minimal surface and a constant negative Gaussian curvature. We show that should be an isoparametric surface in G3: A plane or a circular hyperboloid.
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TopicsGeometric Analysis and Curvature Flows · Point processes and geometric inequalities · Geometry and complex manifolds
Characterizations of Normal and Binormal Surfaces in
Dae Won Yoon † and Zühal Küçükarslan Yüzbaşı ‡
Abstract
In this paper, our aim is to give surfaces in the Galilean 3-space with the property that there exist four geodesics through each point such that every surface built with the normal lines and the binormal lines along these geodesics is a surface with a minimal surface and a constant negative Gaussian curvature. We show that should be an isoparametric surface in : A plane or a circular hyperboloid.
Department of Mathematics Education and RINS
Gyeongsang National University
Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
E-mail address: [email protected]
Department of Mathematics
Fırat University
23119 Elazig, Turkey
E-mail address: [email protected]
†† Corresponding author: Zuhal K. Yuzbasi.††2010 AMS Mathematics Subject Classification: 53A35, 53Z05.†† Key words and phrases: Normal surface, Binormal surface, Geodesics, Galilean space. The first author was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education(2015R1D1A1A01060046)
1 Introduction
A helical curve (or a helix) is a geometric curve which has non-vanishing constant curvature and non-vanishing constant torsion [1]. It is known that if the curve is a straight line or plane curve, then or respectively [4]. On the other hand, a family of curves with constant torsion but the non-constant curvature is called anti-Salkowski curves [9].
From the view of the differential geometry, there are different characterizations of surfaces. Generally, these type characterizations of surfaces are done in terms of the Gaussian curvature and mean curvature of the surface, [2, 3]. On the contrary, if there are the only characterizations of the surface with constant principal curvatures, then these surfaces are called the isoparametric surfaces.
Relevant to this matter which is characterizations of surfaces with constant principal curvatures, in the paper [13], Tamura showed that complete surfaces of constant mean curvature in on which there exist two helical geodesics through each point are planes, spheres or circular cylinders. Recently, Lopez et al. improved surfaces in with the property that there exist four geodesics through each point such that every ruled surface built with the normal lines along these geodesics is a surface with constant mean curvature.
In this paper, we improve this characterization to the Galilean 3-space of negative curvature. To be more precise, we investigate the following results for surfaces in the Galilean 3-space: First, we define surfaces in the Galilean 3-space with the property that there exist four geodesics through each point such that every surface built with the normal lines and the binormal lines along these geodesics is a surface, which a minimal surface, with a constant negative curvature or zero curvature. Second, we show that the surface should be an isoparametric surface in : A plane or a circular hyperboloid. For this reason through our paper, we shall show the following theorems:
Theorem 1.1
Let be a connected surface in Galilean 3-space If there exist four geodesics through each point of with the property that the normal surface constructed along these geodesics is a minimal surface with a constant negative curvature or zero curvature, then is a plane or a circular hyperboloid.
Theorem 1.2
Let be a connected surface in Galilean 3-space If there exist four geodesics through each point of with the property that the binormal surface constructed along these geodesics is a minimal surface with a constant negative curvature or zero curvature, then is a plane or a circular hyperboloid.
2 Preliminaries
The Galilean 3-space is a Cayley-Klein space equipped with the projective metric of signature given in [6]. The absolute figure of the Galilean space consists of an ordered triple in which is the ideal (absolute) plane, is the line (absolute line) in and is the fixed elliptic involution of . We introduce homogeneous coordinates in in such a way that the absolute plane is given by , the absolute line by and the elliptic involution by
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A plane is called Euclidean if it contains , otherwise it is called isotropic or i.e., planes are Euclidean, and so is the plane . Other planes are isotropic. In other words, an isotropic plane does not involve any isotropic direction.
Definition 2.1
([10]) Let and be any two vectors in A vector is called isotropic if , otherwise it is called non-isotropic. Then the Galilean scalar product of these vectors is given by
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Definition 2.2
*([15]) ** *Let and y$$= be any two vectors in the Galilean cross product is given as
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Definition 2.3
([12]) Let be the unit tangent vector of a curve on a surface in , and be the unit normal vector to the surface at the point of , respectively. Let be the tangential-normal. Then is an orthonormal frame at in . The frame is called a Galilean Darboux frame or a tangent-normal frame and it is expressed as
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where , and are the geodesic curvature, normal curvature, and geodesic torsion, respectively.
For the curvature of , holds. Also, a curve is a geodesic (an asymptotic curve or a line of curvature) if and only if ( or ) vanishes, respectively.
Suppose now that is a geodesic. Then and which implies that, up change of orientation on if necessary, is the normal vector to So, from the Galilean Darboux frame, we can write and . If replacing these in Equation (2.4), then the formulae becomes
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Let the equation of a surface in is given by
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Then the unit isotropic normal vector field on is given by
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where the partial differentiations with respect to and , that is, and
From (2.1) and , we get the isotropic unit vector in the tangent plane of the surface as
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where , and ,
Let us define
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where and are the projections of vectors ,1 and ,2 onto the -plane, respectively. Then, the corresponding matrix of the first fundamental form of the surface is given by (cf. [11])
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where and . In such case, we denote the coefficients of by .
On the other hand, the function can be represented in terms of and as follows:
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The Gaussian curvature and the mean curvature of a surface is defined by means of the coefficients of the second fundamental form , which are the normal components of . That is,
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where is the Christoffel symbols of the surface and are given by
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From this, the Gaussian curvature and the mean curvature of the surface are expressed as [8]
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3 Proof of Theorem 1.1
In this section, the below definition, proposition and lemma to prove of Theorem 1.1 are given in different steps.
Now we will start to give the definition of the normal surface as follows:
Definition 3.1
Let be a surface in . The normal surface through is the surface whose the base curve is and the ruling are the straight-lines orthogonal to through .
The normal surface along is a regular surface at least around Then is parametrized by
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where and Then we obtain
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and
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Considering we get Thus, from the inverse function theorem, is an immersion.
Our first step proving Theorem 1.1 is to show the Gaussian curvature of the normal surface build up along the geodesic is a negative constant curvature or zero curvature and should be minimal.
Proposition 3.2
Let be a connected surface in . If the normal surface constructed along a geodesic of is a surface with constant Gaussian curvature, then is either a constant negative curvature surface or flat surface and should be a minimal surface.
Proof. Firstly, suppose that is not a straightline. Then its curvature is defined as well as Considering equations (3.2) and (3.3),
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then we have
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Using (2.6), the unit isotropic normal vector of is found as
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On the other hand, from equations (3.6) and (2.1), it is easy to show that
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Since is the isotropic vector, using the Galilean frame, we can obtain
Considering the projection of and onto the Euclidean plane, we obtain
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Using (3.3), the coefficients of the first fundamental form of the surface in Galilean space are obtained as
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To calculate the second fundamental form of , we have to calculate the following:
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From equations (3.8) and (2.9), the coefficients of the second fundamental form are found as
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Thus, and are calculated as
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Secondly, assume that is a straightline. Then the similar calculations as first case can be done as follows:
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where is the tangent vector to
Using (2.6), the unit isotropic normal vector of is obtained as
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where
From equations (3.8) and (2.9), the coefficients of the second fundamental form are given as
[TABLE]
Thus, the Gaussian curvature satisfies
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Squaring both sides equation (3.15) and writing as polynomial equation, we get a polynomial on of degree six, this means that
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Particularly, for Then we can obtain which implies that
Furthermore we can easily show that
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which is completed the proof.
Lemma 3.3
Let be a connected surface in . If the normal surface , which is a minimal surface, constructed along a geodesic is a constant negative curvature surface or a flat surface, then is either
* an anti Salkowski curve,*
* a planar curve,*
* or a line segment and the last case is a line of curvature of *
Proof. Let be not a line segment. Then . Since is a surface with a negative constant curvature, from equation (3.10), we have
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for all , as a result, we have constant torsion but non-constant curvature. This means that is an anti Salkowski curve [9]. Or, we have
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this implies is a planar curve.
In the last case, if is a line segment, from equation (3.15), we get
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Taking account of the above equations, we can write
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Since we find
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this means that
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from this is also a line of curvature of the surface.
Therefore, Lemma 3.3 means that, under the same hypothesis of Theorem 1.1, there exist four geodesics through each point which are the next three types:
An anti Salkowski curve (Type 1),
A planar curve (Type 2),
A line segment, which is a line of curvature (Type 3).
Theorem 3.4
([14]) A connected surface in with the property that there exist two proper helical geodesics through each point of the surface is an open of a right circular cylinder.
Now our aim is to give the proof of Theorem 1.1. Considering Theorem 3.4 and Proposition 3.2, we can give the following claim:
Claim 3.5
Let a non-umbilic point. In a neighborhood of , there are two proper helical geodesics which is a curve that is both a proper circular helix and a geodesic on through any point of .
By Lemma 3.3, if is an open set around formed by non-umbilic points, then there exist four tangent directions at such that the corresponding geodesic refers to one of the above three Types 1, 2, 3. Because the point is not umbilic there are at most two geodesics of Type 2 or Type 3. As there are four geodesics of Types either 1, 2, or 3, we have two geodesics which are an anti salkowski curve, i.e. of Type 1. In particular, If we get then the anti salkowski curve turns out to be a circular helix. This proves the claim.
Let us denote is the set of umbilic points of . This set is closed on
If , then is contained in circular hyperboloid . In particular, we can write and on . Thus we can define closed set in such that . From connectedness, we get proved that . Since , we easily say that , which proves that . As is both an open and closed set of , by connectedness, proving that is an open set of a circular hyperboloid.
If , then is an umbilic surface. Then is an open of a plane since we have a flat and a minimal surface.
Then we finish the proof of Theorem 1.1.
4 Proof of Theorem 1.2
In this section, we give the proof of Theorem 1.2 in different steps as the proof of Theorem 1.1 .
Now, our starting point is to give the definition of the binormal surface as follows:
Definition 4.1
Let be a surface in . The binormal surface through is the surface whose the base curve is and the ruling are the straightlines orthogonal to through .
The binormal surface along is a regular surface at least around Then is specifed by
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where and Then we get
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and
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If we consider then we get Thus, from the inverse function theorem, is an immersion.
Our first step is to prove Theorem 1.2 is to get the Gaussian curvature of the binormal surface constructed along a geodesic is a negative constant curvature or zero curvature and should be minimal.
Proposition 4.2
Let be a connected surface in . If the binormal surface constructed along a geodesic of is a surface with constant Gaussian curvature, then is either a constant negative curvature surface or flat surface and should be a minimal surface.
Proof. Assume first that is not a straightline. Then its curvature is defined. If we consider equations (4.2) and (4.3),
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then we have
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From (2.6), the unit isotropic normal vector of is found as
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On the other hand, from equations (4.6) and (2.1), it is easy to calculate that
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Since is the isotropic vector, using the Galilean frame, we can get
Considering the projection of and onto the Euclidean plane, we get
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The coefficients of the first fundamental form of the surface in Galilean space are found as
[TABLE]
To calculate the second fundamental form of , we have to compute the following:
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From equations (4.8) and (2.9), the coefficients of the second fundamental form are found as
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Thus, and are computed as
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Secondly, suppose that is a straightline. Then the similar calculations as first case can be done as follows:
[TABLE]
where is the tangent vector to
Using (2.6), the unit isotropic normal vector of is obtained as
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where
From equations (4.8) and (2.9), the coefficients of the second fundamental form are given as
[TABLE]
Thus, the Gaussian curvature satisfies
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Squaring both sides equation (4.15) and writing as polynomial equation, we obtain a polynomial on of degree six, this means that
[TABLE]
Particularly, for Then we can obtain which implies that
Moreover we can easily show that
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Hence this completes the proof.
Lemma 4.3
Let be a connected surface in . If the binormal surface , which is a minimal surface, constructed along a geodesic is a constant negative curvature surface or a flat surface, then is either
* an anti Salkowski curve,*
* a planar curve,*
* or a line segment.*
Proof. This proof can be done in a similar way to the proof of Lemma 3.3.
Therefore, Lemma 4.3 implies that, under the same hypothesis of Theorem 1.2, there exist four geodesics through each point which are the next three types:
An anti Salkowski curve (Type 1),
A planar curve (Type 2),
A line segment (Type 3).
Claim 4.4
Let a non-umbilic point. In a neighborhood of , there are two proper helical geodesics which is a curve that is both a proper circular helix and a geodesic on through any point of .
Then we finish the proof of Theorem 1.2.
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