ON CURVES AND TUBES IN $\mathbb{R}^n$

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new explicit formula for the curvatures of a regular curve with an arbitrary parameter in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, expressed only in terms of its derivatives. We introduce also the notion of tube with arbitrary cross sections around a curve for which we calculate the volume and give a generalization for the second theorem of Pappus. The first theorem of Pappus is obtained for sphere tubes in arbitrary dimension.