The geometry of spherical curves and the algebra of quaternions
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Publication:4872676
DOI10.1070/RM1995v050n01ABEH001662zbMath0848.58005OpenAlexW1974670828MaRDI QIDQ4872676
Publication date: 27 October 1996
Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1070/rm1995v050n01abeh001662
topological invariantsquaternionsMaslov indexcontact manifoldsLegendrian submanifoldscharacteristic chainspherical index
General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)
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