A Study on the Bertrand Offsets of Timelike Ruled Surfaces in Minkowski 3-Space

Abstract

This work extends some classical results of Bertrand curves to timelike ruled and developable surfaces using the E. Study map. This provides support to define two timelike ruled surfaces which are offset in the sense of Bertrand. It is proved that every timelike ruled surface has a Bertrand offset if and only if an equation should be satisfied among their dual invariants. In addition, some new results and theorems concerning the developability of the Bertrand offsets of timelike ruled surfaces are gained.