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Zero mean curvature surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space and 2-dimensional fluid mechanics

Differential Geometry 2013-09-11 v1

Abstract

Space-like maximal surfaces and time-like minimal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski3-space are both characterized as zero mean curvature surfaces. We are interested in the case where the zero mean curvature surface changes type from space-like to time-like at a given non-degenerate null curve. We consider this phenomenon and its interesting connection to 2-dimensional fluid mechanics in this expository article.

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@article{arxiv.1309.2459,
  title  = {Zero mean curvature surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space and 2-dimensional fluid mechanics},
  author = {Shoichi Fujimori and Young Wook Kim and Sung-Eun Koh and Wayne Rossman and Heayong Shin and Masaaki Umehara and Kotaro Yamada and Seong-Deog Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2459},
  year   = {2013}
}

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23 pages, 4 figures