Envelopes of Legendre Curves in the Unit Tangent Bundle over the Euclidean Plane

摘要

For singular plane curves, the classical definitions of envelopes are vague. In order to define envelopes for singular plane curves, we introduce a one-parameter family of Legendre curves in the unit tangent bundle over the Euclidean plane and the curvature. Then we give a definition of an envelope for the one-parameter family of Legendre curves. We investigate properties of the envelopes. For instance, the envelope is also a Legendre curve. Moreover, we consider bi-Legendre curves and give a relationship between envelopes.