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A characterization of Weingarten surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space

Differential Geometry 2021-11-15 v2

Abstract

We study 2-dimensional submanifolds of the space L(H3){\mathbb{L}}({\mathbb{H}}^3) of oriented geodesics of hyperbolic 3-space, endowed with the canonical neutral K\"ahler structure. Such a surface is Lagrangian iff there exists a surface in H3{\mathbb{H}}^3 orthogonal to the geodesics of Σ\Sigma. We prove that the induced metric on a Lagrangian surface in L(H3){\mathbb{L}}({\mathbb{H}}^3) has zero Gauss curvature iff the orthogonal surfaces in H3{\mathbb{H}}^3 are Weingarten: the eigenvalues of the second fundamental form are functionally related. We then classify the totally null surfaces in L(H3){\mathbb{L}}({\mathbb{H}}^3) and recover the well-known holomorphic constructions of flat and CMC 1 surfaces in H3{\mathbb{H}}^3.

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@article{arxiv.0709.2441,
  title  = {A characterization of Weingarten surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space},
  author = {Nikos Georgiou and Brendan Guilfoyle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2441},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

20 pages AMS-LATEX, version 2 correction of typos, inclusion of non-graph cases

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