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Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms

Differential Geometry 2008-08-16 v1

Abstract

Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms, a topic in Lorentzian conformal geometry which parallels the theory of Willmore surfaces in S4S^4, are studied in this paper. We define two kinds of transforms for such a surface, which produce the so-called left/right polar surfaces and the adjoint surfaces. These new surfaces are again conformal Willmore surfaces. For them holds interesting duality theorem. As an application spacelike Willmore 2-spheres are classified. Finally we construct a family of homogeneous spacelike Willmore tori.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1837,
  title  = {Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms},
  author = {Xiang Ma and Peng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1837},
  year   = {2008}
}

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19 pages

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