Generalized null Cartan helices and principal normal worldsheets in Minkowski 3-space

Abstract

We give a method for constructing generalized null Cartan helices, which may have singularities, by using regular space-like plane curves and smooth functions in Minkowski 3-space. We also study the principle normal worldsheet, which is deeply related to generalized null Cartan helices from the viewpoint of singularity theory.