AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONDITION UNDER WHICH A CONCHOIDAL SURFACE IS A BONNET SURFACE IN THE EUCLIDEAN 3-SPACE

In this study, we examine the condition of the conchoidal surface to be a Bonnet surface in Euclidean 3-space. Especially, we consider the Bonnet conchoidal surfaces which admit an infnite number of isometries. In addition, we study the necessary conditions which have to be fulflled by the surface of revolution with the rotating curve <em>c</em>(<em>t</em>) and its conchoid curve <em>c_d</em>(<em>t</em>) to be the Bonnet surface in Euclidean 3-space.

Mathematical modeling of triode system on the basis of field emitter with ellipsoid shape

In this paper the mathematical modeling of the triode emission axially symmetric system on the basis of field emitter is considered. Emitter is an ellipsoid of revolution, anode is a confocal ellipsoidal surface of revolution. Modulator is a part of the ellipsoidal surface of revolution, confocal with the cathode and anode surfaces. The boundary-value problem for the Laplace's equation in the prolate spheroidal coordinates with the boundary conditions of the first kind is solved. The variable separation method is applied to calculate the axisymmetrical electrostatic potential distribution. The potential distribution is represented as the Legendre functions expansion. The expansion coefficients are the solution of the system of linear equations. All geometrical dimensions of the system are the parameters of the problem.

On the Affine Image of a Rational Surface of Revolution

We study the properties of the image of a rational surface of revolution under a nonsingular affine mapping. We prove that this image has a notable property, namely that all the affine normal lines, a concept that appears in the context of affine differential geometry, created by Blaschke in the first decades of the 20th century, intersect a fixed line. Given a rational surface with this property, which can be algorithmically checked, we provide an algorithmic method to find a surface of revolution, if it exists, whose image under an affine mapping is the given surface; the algorithm also finds the affine transformation mapping one surface onto the other. Finally, we also prove that the only rational affine surfaces of rotation, a generalization of surfaces of revolution that arises in the context of affine differential geometry, and which includes surfaces of revolution as a subtype, affinely transforming into a surface of revolution are the surfaces of revolution, and that in that case the affine mapping must be a similarity.

Geometry and Geodesy on the Primary Visual Cortex as a Surface of Revolution

Biological mapping of the visual field from the eye retina to the primary visual cortex, also known as occipital area V1, is central to vision and eye movement phenomena and research. That mapping is critically dependent on the existence of cortical magnification factors. Once unfolded, V1 has a convex three-dimensional shape, which can be mathematically modeled as a surface of revolution embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Thus, we solve the problem of differential geometry and geodesy for the mapping of the visual field to V1, involving both isotropic and non-isotropic cortical magnification factors of a most general form. We provide illustrations of our technique and results that apply to V1 surfaces with curve profiles relevant to vision research in general and to visual phenomena such as ‘crowding’ effects and eye movement guidance in particular. From a mathematical perspective, we also find intriguing and unexpected differential geometry properties of V1 surfaces, discovering that geodesic orbits have alternative prograde and retrograde characteristics, depending on the interplay between local curvature and global topology.