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We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-18 Thierry Barbot , François Béguin , Abdelghani Zeghib

We obtain isometric minimal helicoidal and rotational surfaces using generalized Bour's theorem in three dimensional Minkowski space. In addition, we show that the surfaces preserve minimality when their Gauss maps identically equal,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Erhan Güler , Yusuf Yaylı

In this paper, we investigate surfaces in singular semi-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{0,2,1}$ endowed with a degenerate metric. We define $d$-minimal surfaces, and give a representation formula of Weierstrass type. Moreover, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Yuichiro Sato

In this paper we will construct a Weierstrass type representation for minimal surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian Damek-Ricci spaces and we give some examples of such surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Adriana A. Cintra , Francesco Mercuri , Irene I. Onnis

We use the recently established existence and regularity of area and energy minimizing discs in metric spaces to obtain canonical parametrizations of metric surfaces. Our approach yields a new and conceptually simple proof of a well-known…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Alexander Lytchak , Stefan Wenger

Generalized Weierstrass representations for generic surfaces conformally immersed into four-dimensional Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces of different signatures are presented. Integrable deformations of surfaces in these spaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. G. Konopelchenko

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

We obtain the Weierstrass-Enneper representation for maximal graphs(whose Gauss map is one-one) in Lorentz-Minkowski space. For this we use the method of Barbishov and Chernikov, which they have used to find the solutions of Born-Infeld…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Rahul Kumar Singh

We investigate a correspondence between solutions $\lambda(x,y)$ of the Liouville equation \[ \Delta \lambda = -\varepsilon e^{-4\lambda}, \] and the Weierstrass representations of spacelike ($\varepsilon = 1$) and timelike ($\varepsilon =…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Adriana A. Cintra , Iury Domingos , Irene I. Onnis

We apply the complex analysis over the double numbers $D$ to study the minimal time-like surfaces in $R^4_2$. A minimal time-like surface which is free of degenerate points is said to be of general type. We divide the minimal time-like…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

This paper aims to study the relationship between the timelike extremal hypersurfaces and the classical minimal surfaces. This target also gives the long time dynamics of timelike extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Weiping Yan , Weijia Li

This paper concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional Minkowski space in relation to their Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge is uniquely foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Francesco Bonsante , Andrea Seppi , Peter Smillie

We study surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in Euclidean or Minkowski 4-space. On any such surface we introduce special isothermal parameters (canonical parameters) and describe these surfaces in terms of three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

The main objective of this paper is to derive the Enneper-Weierstrass representation of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{E}^3$ using the soliton surface approach. We exploit the Bryant-type representation of conformally parametrized surfaces in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 A Doliwa , A M Grundland

We prove that the Gauss curvature and the curvature of the normal connection of any minimal surface in the four dimensional Euclidean space satisfy an inequality, which generates two classes of minimal surfaces: minimal surfaces of general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-23 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

Lecture notes from the mini-course "Topics in Lorentz Geometry" taught at the University of S\~{a}o Paulo, in March/2019. The text has three parts: (i) an overall view of linear algebra in the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n_\nu$, with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Ivo Terek

We develop a ``canonical Wick rotation-rescaling theory in 3-dimensional gravity''. This includes: (a) A simultaneous classification that shows how generic maximal globally hyperbolic spacetimes of constant curvature, which admit a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Benedetti , Francesco Bonsante

In this paper, we obtain Weierstrass representations for discrete constant mean curvature surfaces in isotropic 3-space, and use this to construct examples with discrete closed-form parametrizations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Joseph Cho , Masaya Hara

We derive a correspondence between (Lorentzian) harmonic maps into the pseudosphere $S_1^2$, with appropriate regularity conditions, and certain connection 1-forms. To these harmonic maps, we associate a representation of type Weierstrass,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Josef Dorfmeister , Junichi Inoguchi , Magdalena Toda

This article surveys the Weierstrass representation of surfaces in the three- and four-dimensional spaces, with an emphasis on its relation to the Willmore functional. We also describe an application of this representation to constructing a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Iskander A. Taimanov