SOME CHARACTERIZATIONS OF PSEUDO AND PARTIALLY NULL OSCULATING CURVES IN MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME

Year 2011, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 1 - 12, 30.10.2011

Kazım İlarslan , Emilija Nešović

Abstract

Keywords

Minkowski space-time, osculating curve, pseudo null curve, partially null curve

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