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A Correspondence Between Maximal Surfaces and Timelike Minimal Surfaces in $\mathbb{L}^3$

Differential Geometry 2019-09-18 v1

Abstract

We show that to every maximal surface with conelike singularities in Lorentz-Minkowski space L3\mathbb{L}^3 that can be locally represented as the graph of a smooth function, there exists a corresponding timelike minimal surface in L3\mathbb{L}^3. There exists a linear transformation between such a maximal surface and its corresponding timelike minimal surface and it maps the singularities of one to the singularities of the other. Moreover, this transformation establishes a one-one correspondence between such maximal surfaces and timelike minimal surfaces and also preserves the one-one property of the Gauss map. This leads to a Kobayashi type theorem for timelike minimal surfaces in L3\mathbb{L}^3. Finally, we derive some non-trivial identities using existing Euler-Ramanujan identities, and some familiar timelike minimal surfaces in parametric form.

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@article{arxiv.1909.07744,
  title  = {A Correspondence Between Maximal Surfaces and Timelike Minimal Surfaces in $\mathbb{L}^3$},
  author = {Aryaman Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.07744},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages

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