Timelike $B_2$-slant helices in Minkowski space $E_1^4$

Ahmad T. Ali, Rafael López

Published 2008-10-08Version 1

We consider a unit speed timelike curve $\alpha$ in Minkowski 4-space $E_1^4$ and denote the Frenet frame of $\alpha$ by $\{T,N,B_1,B_2\}$. We say that $\alpha$ is a generalized helix if one of the unit vector fields of the Frenet frame has constant scalar product with a fixed direction $U$ of $E_1^4$. In this work we study those helices where the function $<B_2,U>$ is constant and we give different characterizations of such curves.