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Marginally trapped surfaces in L4 and an extended Weierstrass-Bryant representation

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give a conformal representation in terms of meromorphic data for a certain class of spacelike surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 4-space L^4 whose mean curvature vector is either lightlike or zero at each point. This representation extends simultaneously the Weierstrass representation for minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space and for maximal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space, and the Bryant representation for mean curvature one surfaces in the hyperbolic 3-space and in the de Sitter 3-space.

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@article{arxiv.math/0503702,
  title  = {Marginally trapped surfaces in L4 and an extended Weierstrass-Bryant representation},
  author = {Juan A. Aledo and Jose A. Galvez and Pablo Mira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0503702},
  year   = {2007}
}

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20 pages