Bertrand Legendre curves in the unit tangent bundle over Euclidean plane

Abstract

We investigate not only the associated curves of regular plane curves, but also those of Legendre curves. As associated curves, we consider Bertrand regular plane curves and Bertrand Legendre curves. These curves contain parallel, evolute and involute curves, as well as evolutoid and involutoid curves. Since associated curves may have singular points even if the original curve is regular, Legendre curves provide a suitable framework for investigating the properties of such curves. We give existence conditions of Bertrand regular plane curves and Bertrand Legendre curves. Moreover, we give an inverse operation for Bertrand Legendre curves. Furthermore, we define a mapping between sets of Legendre curves using Bertrand Legendre curves and prove that this mapping is bijective up to equivalence relations.

18 pages