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In mathematics (differential geometry) twist is the rate of rotation of a smooth ribbon around the space curve , where is the arc-length of and a unit vector perpendicular at each point to . Since the ribbon has edges and the twist (or ''total twist number'') measures the average winding of the curve around and along the curve . According to Love (1944) twist is defined by : where is the unit tangent vector to . The total twist number can be decomposed (Moffatt & Ricca 1992) into ''normalized total torsion'' and ''intrinsic twist'' , that is : where is the torsion of the space curve , and denotes the total rotation angle of along . The total twist number depends on the choice of the vector field (Banchoff & White 1975). When the ribbon is deformed so as to pass through an ''inflectional state'' (i.e. has a point of inflection) torsion becomes singular, but its singularity is integrable (Moffatt & Ricca 1992) and remains continuous. This behavior has many important consequences for energy considerations in many fields of science. Together with the writhe of , twist is a geometric quantity that plays an important role in the application of the Călugăreanu–White–Fuller formula in topological fluid dynamics (for its close relation to kinetic and magnetic helicity of a vector field), physical knot theory, and structural complexity analysis. ==References== *Banchoff, T.F. & White, J.H. (1975) The behavior of the total twist and self-linking number of a closed space curve under inversions. ''Math. Scand.'' 36, 254–262. *Love, A.E.H. (1944) (''A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity'' ). Dover, 4th Ed., New York. *Moffatt, H.K. & Ricca, R.L. (1992) (Helicity and the Călugăreanu invariant ). ''Proc. R. Soc. A'' 439, 411–429. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twist (mathematics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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