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Canonical Coordinates and Natural Equations for Minimal Time-like Surfaces in $R^4_2$

Differential Geometry 2019-12-03 v1

Abstract

We apply the complex analysis over the double numbers DD to study the minimal time-like surfaces in R24R^4_2. A minimal time-like surface which is free of degenerate points is said to be of general type. We divide the minimal time-like surfaces of general type into three types and prove that these surfaces admit special geometric (canonical) parameters. Then the geometry of the minimal time-like surfaces of general type is determined by the Gauss curvature KK and the curvature of the normal connection ϰ\varkappa, satisfying the system of natural equations for these surfaces. We prove the following: If (K,ϰ),K2ϰ2>0(K, \varkappa), \, K^2- \varkappa^2 > 0 is a solution to the system of natural equations, then there exists exactly one minimal time-like surface of the first type and exactly one minimal time-like surface of the second type with invariants (K,ϰ)(K, \varkappa); if (K,ϰ),K2ϰ2<0(K, \varkappa),\, K^2- \varkappa^2 < 0 is a solution to the system of natural equations, then there exists exactly one minimal time-like surface of the third type with invariants (K,ϰ)(K, \varkappa).

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@article{arxiv.1912.00014,
  title  = {Canonical Coordinates and Natural Equations for Minimal Time-like Surfaces in $R^4_2$},
  author = {Georgi Ganchev and Krasimir Kanchev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00014},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

52 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.10779