Moving Frame

In mathematics, a moving frame is a flexible generalization of the notion of an ordered basis of a vector space often used to study the extrinsic differential geometry of smooth manifolds embedded in a homogeneous space.

Read more about Moving Frame:  Introduction, Method of The Moving Frame, Moving Tangent Frames, Applications

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