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Minimal Lorentz Surfaces in Pseudo-Euclidean 4-Space with Neutral Metric

Differential Geometry 2019-08-28 v3

Abstract

We study minimal Lorentz surfaces in the pseudo-Euclidean 4-space with neutral metric whose first normal space is two-dimensional and whose Gauss curvature KK and normal curvature ϰ\varkappa satisfy the inequality K2ϰ2>0K^2-\varkappa^2 >0. Such surfaces we call minimal Lorentz surfaces of general type. On any surface of this class we introduce geometrically determined canonical parameters and prove that any minimal Lorentz surface of general type is determined (up to a rigid motion) by two invariant functions satisfying a system of two natural partial differential equations. Using a concrete solution to this system we construct an example of a minimal Lorentz surface of general type.

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@article{arxiv.1705.06151,
  title  = {Minimal Lorentz Surfaces in Pseudo-Euclidean 4-Space with Neutral Metric},
  author = {Yana Aleksieva and Velichka Milousheva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06151},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

18 pages; a new section with an example is added