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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.

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@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}
}

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33 pages, 12 figures

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