ON CERTAIN CRINKLY CURVES American Mathematical Society关于某些曲线美国数学学会.pdfVIP

ON CERTAIN CRINKLY CURVES* BY ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOOBE Introduction. — In any field of geometric investigation the curves fall roughly into two classes, constituted respectively of the curves ordinarily investigated and of the other curves ; these unusual curves are in positive designation the crinkly curves. In this paper we are to investigate by interplaying graphic and analytic methods (in I) the continuous surface-filling œy-curves : x = cp (t) , y = yjr (t) : of Peano and Hilbert and (in II) the continuous tangentless yt-curve : y = yjr(t) : connected with Peanos curve. We define the various curves AT as point-for- point limit-curves for n = oo of certain curves Kn (n = 1, 2 , 3 , • • •) ; these curves Kn are broken-line curves derivable each from the preceding by processes simple and such that the (nodal) extremities of the various w-links of Kt persist as corresponding points and also nodes of the Fl+l ; thus, the nodes of 7T are points of If; the set of all these nodes