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Zero mean curvature entire graphs of mixed type in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space

Differential Geometry 2016-03-07 v2

Abstract

It is classically known that the only zero mean curvature entire graphs in the Euclidean 3-space are planes, by Bernstein's theorem. A surface in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space R13\boldsymbol{R}^3_1 is called of mixed type if it changes causal type from space-like to time-like. In R13\boldsymbol{R}^3_1, Osamu Kobayashi found two zero mean curvature entire graphs of mixed type that are not planes. As far as the authors know, these two examples were the only known examples of entire zero mean curvature graphs of mixed type without singularities. In this paper, we construct several families of real analytic zero mean curvature entire graphs of mixed type in Lorentz-Minkowski 33-space. The entire graphs mentioned above lie in one of these classes.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07954,
  title  = {Zero mean curvature entire graphs of mixed type in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space},
  author = {Shoichi Fujimori and Yu Kawakami and Masatoshi Kokubu and Wayne Rossman and Masaaki Umehara and Kotaro Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07954},
  year   = {2016}
}

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31 pages, 5 figures