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A marginally trapped surface in the four-dimensional Minkowski space is a spacelike surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at each point. We introduce meridian surfaces of parabolic type as one-parameter systems of meridians of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We review part of the classical theory of curves and surfaces in $3$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. We focus in spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature pointing the differences and similarities with the Euclidean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Rafael López

Minkowski spacetime is transitive under ordinary translations, a transformation that do not have matrix representations. The de Sitter spacetime, on the other hand, is transitive under a combination of translations and proper conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-20 J. G. Pereira , A. C. Sampson , L. L. Savi

The article provides a pedagogical review aimed at graduate students in materials science, physics, and applied mathematics, focusing on recent developments in the subject. Following a brief summary of concepts from complex analysis, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Z. Bazant , Darren Crowdy

Submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space are investigated from various mathematical viewpoints and are of interest also in relativity theory. We define the hyperbolic surface and the de Sitter surface of a curve in the spacelike hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Shyuichi Izumiya , Ana Claudia Nabarro , Andrea de Jesus Sacramento

The conformal compactification is considered in a hierarchy of hypercomplex projective spaces with relevance in physics including Minkowski and Anti-de Sitter space. The geometries are expressed in terms of bicomplex Vahlen matrices and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 S. Ulrych

For CMC surfaces in $3$-dimensional space forms, we relate the moment class of Korevaar--Kusner--Solomon to a second cohomology class arising from the integrable systems theory of isothermic surfaces. In addition, we show that both classes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 F. E. Burstall , E. Carberry , U. Hertrich-Jeromin , F. Pedit

We develop some basic facts on deformations of exterior differential ideals on a smooth complex algebraic variety. With these tools we study deformations of several types of differential ideals, leading to several irreducible components of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Fernando Cukierman , César Massri

Einstein equations are addressed with the energy-momentum tensor that appears if the equations under discussion are required to possess conformal invariance. It is proved that thus derived equations (equations of conformally invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Gorbatenko

In this paper, we analyze the modification of integrable models in the $\kappa$-deformed space-time. We show that two dimensional isotropic oscillator problem, Kepler problem and MICZ-Kepler problem in $\kappa$-deformed space-time admit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Partha Guha , E. Harikumar , N. S. Zuhair

A spacelike surface in four-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime through the lightcone has a meaningful lightlike normal vector field $\eta$. Several sufficient assumptions on such a surface with non-degenerate $\eta$-second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Francisco J. Rodriguez , Alfonso Romero

For self-similar fractals, the Minkowski content and fractal curvature have been introduced as a suitable limit of the geometric characteristics of its parallel sets, i.e., of uniformly thin coatings of the fractal. For some self-conformal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Tilman Johannes Bohl

In this paper, we consider deformations of singular complex curves on complex surfaces. Despite the fundamental nature of the problem, little seems to be known for curves on general surfaces. Let $C\subset S$ be a complete integral curve on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Takeo Nishinou

Conformal geodesics are solutions to a system of third order of equations, which makes a Lagrangian formulation problematic. We show how enlarging the class of allowed variations leads to a variational formulation for this system with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Maciej Dunajski , Wojciech Kryński

A canonical normal null direction on a spacelike surface in the four dimensional Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{3,1}$ is a parallel vector field $Z$ on $\mathbb{R}^{3,1}$ such that the normal component of $Z$ on the surface is a lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Victor H. Patty Yujra

Until now, the only known maximal surfaces in Minkowski 3-space of finite topology with compact singular set and without branch points were either genus zero or genus one, or came from a correspondence with minimal surfaces in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-13 Shoichi Fujimori , Wayne Rossman , Masaaki Umehara , Seong-Deog Yang , Kotaro Yamada

In this paper we show that even in the case of simply connected minimal algebraic surfaces of general type, deformation and differentiable equivalence do not coincide. Exhibiting several simple families of surfaces which are not deformation…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Catanese , Bronislaw Wajnryb

Periods of parallel exterior forms define natural coordinates on the deformation space of complete affine structures on the two-torus. These coordinates define a differentiable structure on this deformation space, under which it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver Baues , William M. Goldman

The special isothermic surfaces, discovered by Darboux in connection with deformations of quadrics, admit a simple explanation via the gauge-theoretic approach to isothermic surfaces. We find that they fit into a heirarchy of special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-05 F. E. Burstall , S. D. Santos

In this paper we set-up a general framework for a formal deformation theory of Dirac structures. We give a parameterization of formal deformations in terms of two-forms obeying a cubic equation. The notion of equivalence is discussed in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Frank Keller , Stefan Waldmann