Solution

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At a fixed initial parameter choose an orthogonal map sending to , to and to . Its determinant is . The transformed curve has Frenet frame , so its curvature is and its torsion is .
Both its frame and the frame of solve the same linear Frenet system with the same initial data. The uniqueness theorem for a linear ordinary differential system with continuous coefficients makes the frames identical on the whole interval. In particular , so their difference is a constant vector . Thus
The orientation-reversing rigid motion accounts for the reversal of torsion.

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