A characterization of Weingarten surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space
Differential Geometry
2021-11-15 v2
Abstract
We study 2-dimensional submanifolds of the space 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 orthogonal to the geodesics of . We prove that the induced metric on a Lagrangian surface in has zero Gauss curvature iff the orthogonal surfaces in are Weingarten: the eigenvalues of the second fundamental form are functionally related. We then classify the totally null surfaces in and recover the well-known holomorphic constructions of flat and CMC 1 surfaces in .
Cite
@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