Motion of Inextensible Quaternionic Curves and Modified Korteweg-de Vries Equation

Abstract

Many curve evolutions have been determined which are integrable in recent times. The motion of curves can be defined by certain integrable equations including the modified Korteweg-de Vries. In this study, the quaternionic curves in 3 and 4-dimensional Euclidean spaces have been considered and the motions of inextensible quaternionic curves have been characterized by the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations. For this purpose, the basic concepts of the quaternions and quaternionic curves have been summarized. Then the evolutions of inextensible quaternionic curves with reference to the Frenet formulae have been obtained. Finally, the mKdV equations have been generated with the help of their evolutions