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SPECIAL SMARANDACHE CURVES IN R31 NURTEN (BAYRAK) GÜRSES, ÖZCAN BEKTA¸ S , AND SALIM YÜCE Abstract. In this study, we determine TN-Smarandache curves whose position vector is composed by Frenet frame vectors of another regular curve in Minkowski 3-space R31 . Then, we present some characterisations of Smarandache curves and calculate Frenet invariants of these curves. Moreover, we classify TN; TB; NB and TNB-Smarandache curves of a regular curve parametrized by arc length by presenting a brief table with respect to the causal character of . Also, we will give some examples related to results.
1. Introduction In di¤erential geometry, there are many important consequences and properties of curves studied by some authors [1, 2, 3]. Researchers always introduce some new curves by using the existing studies. Special Smarandache curves are one of them. Smarandache curve is de…ned as a regular curve whose position vector is composed by Frenet frame vectors of another regular curve in Minkowski spacetime in [4]. Special Smarandache curves have been studied by some authors [4, 5, 6]. M. Turgut and S. Y¬lmaz have identi…ed a special case of such curves and called them TB2 -Smarandache curves in the space R41 [4]. They have dealt with a special Smarandache curve which is de…ned by the tangent and second binormal vector …elds. Besides, they have computed formulae of this kind of curves by the method expressed in [4]. A. T. Ali has introduced some special Smarandache curves in the Euclidean space [5]. Special Smarandache curves such as TN1 , TN2 , N1 N2 and TN1 N2 -Smarandache curves according to Bishop frame in Euclidean 3-space have been investigated by Çetin and Tunçer [6]. Furthermore, they have studied di¤erential geometric properties of these special curves and they have calculated the …rst and second curvature (natural curvatures) of these curves. Also, they have found the centres of the curvature spheres and osculating spheres of Smarandache curves.
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