Isometric deformations of mixed type surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space
Differential Geometry
2019-08-07 v1
Abstract
A connected regular surface in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space is called a mixed type surface if the spacelike, timelike and lightlike point sets are all non-empty. Lightlike points on mixed type surfaces may be regarded as singular points of the induced metrics. In this paper, we introduce the L-Gauss map around non-degenerate lightlike points, and show the fundamental theorem of surface theory for mixed type surfaces at non-degenerate lightlike points. As an application, we prove that a real analytic mixed type surface admits non-trivial isometric deformations around generic lightlike points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.01967,
title = {Isometric deformations of mixed type surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space},
author = {Atsufumi Honda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01967},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
33 pages, 12 figures