THE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF SPACELIKE CURVES IN R4

Year 2016, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 299 - 307, 01.10.2016

M. Aykut Akgun A. İhsan Sıvrıdag Erol Kılıc

Abstract

In this paper, we study the geometry of position vectors of a spacelike curve in the Minkowski 4-space. We give some characterizations for spacelike curves to lie on some subspaces of R4 1.

Keywords

Spacelike curve, Frenet frame, Minkowski spacetime

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