Satoshi Kawakubo

The Kirchhoff elastic rod is a classical mathematical model of equilibrium configurations of thin elastic rods, and is defined to be a solution of the Euler-Lagrange equations associated to the energy with the effect of bending and twisting. We consider the initial-value problem for the Euler-Lagrange equations in a Riemannian manifold. In a previous paper, the author proved the existence and uniqueness of global solutions of the initial-value problem in the case where the ambient space is a space form. In the present paper, we extend this result to the case where the ambient space is a general complete Riemannian manifold. This implies that an arbitrary Kirchhoff elastic rod of finite length in a complete Riemannian manifold extends to that of infinite length. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

We give examples of Kirchhoff rod centerlines in five-dimensional space forms which are fully immersed and not helices. We also show that the natural curvatures of these Kirchhoff rod centerlines are expressed explicitly in terms of Jacobi sn function. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The localized induction hierarchy in three-dimensional space forms is studied. In particular, we determine all the generating curves of congruence solutions to each evolution equation belonging to the localized induction hierarchy. Here, a congruence solution means a solution moving without changing shape. Also, we give the characterization of some low-order soliton curves.

The Kirchhoff elastic rod is one of the mathematical models of equilibrium configurations of thin elastic rods, and is defined to be a solution of the Euler-Lagrange equations associated to the energy with the effect of bending and twisting. In this paper, we consider Kirchhoff elastic rods in a space form. In particular, we give the existence and uniqueness of global solutions of the initial-value problem for the Euler-Lagrange equations. This implies that an arbitrary Kirchhoff elastic rod of finite length extends to that of infinite length.

In this paper, we give examples of Kirchhoff rod centerlines fully immersed in higher-dimensional space forms. More precisely, we prove that any helix in a space form is a Kirchhoff rod centerline. These examples imply the difference of the geometric properties between Kirchhoff rod centerlines and elasticae.

The Kirchhoff elastic rod is one of the mathematical models of thin elastic rods, and is characterized as a critical point of the energy functional obtained by adding the effect of twisting to the bending energy. In this paper, we investigate Kirchhoff elastic rods in three-dimensional space forms. In particular, we give explicit formulas of Kirchhoff elastic rods in the three-sphere and in the three-dimensional hyperbolic space in terms of Jacobi sn function and the elliptic integrals.

The Kirchhoff elastic rod is one of the mathematical models of thin elastic rods, and is a critical point of the energy functional with the effect of bending and twisting. In this paper, we study Kirchhoff elastic rods in the three-sphere of constant curvature. In particular, we give explicit expressions of Kirchhoff elastic rods in terms of elliptic functions and integrals. In addition, we obtain equivalent conditions for Kirchhoff elastic rods to be closed, and give an example of closed Kirchhoff elastic rods.

Imagine a thin elastic rod like a piano wire. We consider the situation that the elastic rod is bent and twisted and both ends are welded together to form a smooth loop. Then, does there exist a stable equilibrium? In this paper, we generalize the energy of uniform symmetric Kirchhoff elastic rods in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space to consider such a variational problem in a Riemannian manifold. We give the existence and regularity of minimizers of the energy in a compact or homogeneous Riemannian manifold.