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On the Total CR Twist of Transversal Curves in the $3$-Sphere
Emilio Mussoa, Lorenzo Nicolodib a Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Politecnico di Torino,
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy
b Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 53/A, I-43124 Parma, Italy
Abstract:
We investigate the total CR twist functional on transversal curves in the standard CR $3$-sphere $\mathrm S^3 \subset \mathbb C^2$. The question of the integration by quadratures of the critical curves and the problem of existence and properties of closed critical curves are addressed. A procedure for the explicit integration of general critical curves is provided and a characterization of closed curves within a specific class of general critical curves is given. Experimental evidence of the existence of infinite countably many closed critical curves is provided.
Keywords:
CR $3$-sphere, transversal curves, CR invariants, total CR twist, Griffiths' formalism, Lax formulation of E-L equations, integration by quadratures, closed critical curves.
Received: July 11, 2023; in final form November 26, 2023; Published online December 21, 2023
Citation:
Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi, “On the Total CR Twist of Transversal Curves in the $3$-Sphere”, SIGMA, 19 (2023), 101, 36 pp.
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