Stationary acceleration of Frenet curves

J Inequal Appl. 2017;2017(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s13660-017-1354-7. Epub 2017 Apr 28.

Abstract

In this paper, the stationary acceleration of the spherical general helix in a 3-dimensional Lie group is studied by using a bi-invariant metric. The relationship between the Frenet elements of the stationary acceleration curve in 4-dimensional Euclidean space and the intrinsic Frenet elements of the Lie group is outlined. As a consequence, the corresponding curvature and torsion of these curves are computed. In Minkowski space, for the curves on a timelike surface to have a stationary acceleration, a necessary and sufficient condition is refined.

Keywords: Frenet elements; Minkowski space; bi-invariant metric; spherical general helix; stationary acceleration.