ON CHARACTERIZATIONS OF SPHERICAL CURVES

Haila Alodan (Saudi Arabia) and Hana Al-Sodais (Saudi Arabia)

Received September 17, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: spherical curves, submanifolds, mean curvature.