Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, cilt.60, sa.4, ss.210-220, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, we give some characterizations of Mannheim partner curves in the Minkowski 3-space E 3 1. Firstly, we classify these curves in E 3 1. Next, we give some relationships characterizing these curves and we show that the Mannheim theorem is not valid for the Mannheim partner curves in E 3 1. Moreover, by considering the spherical indicatrix of the Frenet vectors of those curves, we obtain some new relationships between the curvatures and torsions of the Mannheim partner curves in E 3 1.