On generalised framed surfaces in the Euclidean space

Abstract

We have introduced framed surfaces as smooth surfaces with singular points. The framed surface is a surface with a moving frame based on the unit normal vector of the surface. Thus, the notion of framed surfaces (respectively, framed base surfaces) is locally equivalent to the notion of Legendre surfaces (respectively, frontals). A more general notion of singular surfaces, called generalised framed surfaces, is introduced in this paper. The notion of generalised framed surfaces includes not only the notion of framed surfaces, but also the notion of one-parameter families of framed curves. It also includes surfaces with corank one singularities. We investigate the properties of generalised framed surfaces.

Keywords

• generalised framed surface
• framed surface
• parallel surface
• singular point
• basic invariants