Spinor formulation of the differential geometry of curves
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Frenet equations, Spinors, 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification, Primary: 55A04. Secondary: 15A66. (en)##submission.downloads##
Abstract. It is shown that the Frenet equations for curves in R3 can be reduced to a single equation for a vector with two complex components and some examples of the usefulness of this representation are given.
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