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Singularities on timelike minimal surfaces in Lorentzian Heisenberg group

Differential Geometry 2026-02-18 v1

Abstract

Timelike minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional Lorentzian Heisenberg group are shown to be constructed from Lorentzian harmonic maps into the de-Sitter two-sphere, and they naturally admit singular points. In particular, we provide criteria for cuspidal edges, swallowtails, and cuspidal cross caps, and present several explicit examples.

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@article{arxiv.2602.15414,
  title  = {Singularities on timelike minimal surfaces in Lorentzian Heisenberg group},
  author = {Shintaro Akamine and Hirotaka Kiyohara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15414},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages, 2 figures