Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, the notion of the catenary curve in the sphere and in the hyperbolic plane is introduced. In both spaces, a catenary is defined as the shape of a hanging chain when its potential energy is determined by the distance to a given geodesic of the space. Several characterizations of the catenary are established in terms of the curvature of the curve and of the angle that its unit normal makes with a vector field of the ambient space. Furthermore, in the hyperbolic plane, we extend the concept of catenary substituting the reference geodesic by a horocycle or the hyperbolic distance by the horocycle distance.
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