Null Curves of Constant Breadth in Minkowski 4-Space

Year 2019, Volume: 68 Issue: 1, 451 - 456, 01.02.2019

Bülent Altunkaya , Ferdağ Kahraman Aksoyak

https://doi.org/10.31801/cfsuasmas.425624

Abstract

In this paper, we define null curves of constant breadth in Minkowski 4-space and obtain a characterization of these curves. Also we give an example for such curves.

Keywords

Null curves, curves of constant breadth, Minkowski space

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