Similarity conjecture for cubic rational helical space curves

Let C1\mathcal{C}_1 and C2\mathcal{C}_2 be cubic rational helical space curves with proportionality constants μ1\mu_1 and μ2\mu_2, respectively. The curves have proportionality constants of equal modulus when μ1=μ2|\mu_1|=|\mu_2|. Similarity conjecture. Any two cubic rational helical space curves with proportionality constants of equal modulus are similar. This conjecture asserts that, for helical cubics, the necessary condition from the similarity proposition is also sufficient; the paper reports no counterexample among the examples tested, while the general converse fails for helical quintics.

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Juan Gerardo Alcázar, Carlos Hermoso and Georg Muntingh, “Similarity detection of rational space curves”, arXiv:1512.02620 (2017).

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