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Periodic space crystals are well established and widely used in physical sciences. Time crystals have been increasingly explored more recently, where time is disconnected from space. Periodic relativistic spacetime crystals on the other…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Venkatraman Gopalan

A simple visual representation of Minkowski spacetime appropriate for a student with a background in geometry and algebra is presented. Minkowski spacetime can be modeled with a Euclidean 4-space to yield accurate visualizations as…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-03 Don V. Black , M. Gopi , F. Wessel , R. Pajarola , F. Kuester

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new algorithm for obtaining approximate solutions to the Burgers' equation (BE). Integration in time by a quadratic B-spline collocation method is shown. To the best of our knowledge, B-splines have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Idris Dag , Serkan Uğurluoğlu , Nihat Adar

In this note, we use isothermic coordinate systems to explore global properties of space-like surfaces with constant mean curvature in the Lorentz-Minkowski three-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yu Kawakami , Kaito Satake

In this paper, we introduce a Robin boundary analogue of the Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which seeks to find a capillary convex body with a prescribed capillary Orlicz surface area measure in the upper Euclidean half-space. We obtain the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Xudong Wang , Baocheng Zhu

We give an immersion formula, the Sym-Bobenko formula, for minimal surfaces in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg space. Such a formula can be used to give a generalized Weierstrass type representation and construct explicit examples of minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Sébastien Cartier

Utilizing the Weierstrass representation for embedded doubly periodic minimal surfaces with parallel ends, we construct entire singly periodic graphs of spacelike maximal surfaces with isolated cone-like singularities in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Peter Connor , Shoichi Fujimori

We discuss timelike and spacelike minimal surfaces in $AdS_n$ using a Pohlmeyer type reduction. The differential equations for the reduced system are derived in a parallel treatment of both type of surfaces, with emphasis on their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-18 Harald Dorn , George Jorjadze , Sebastian Wuttke

As in the case of minimal surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space, the reflection principle for maximal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space asserts that if a maximal surface has a spacelike line segment $L$, the surface is invariant under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Shintaro Akamine , Hiroki Fujino

We show that a Born-Infeld soliton can be realised either as a spacelike minimal graph or timelike minimal graph over a timelike plane or a combination of both away from singular points. We also obtain some exact solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Rukmini Dey , Rahul Kumar Singh

In this study, we give weighted mean and weighted Gaussian curvatures of two types of timelike general rotational surfaces with non-null plane meridian curves in four-dimensional Minkowski space E^4_1 with density…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Ahmet Kazan , Mustafa Altın , Dae Won Yoon

In this paper, we study the timelike tubular Weingarten surfaces in 3-dimensional Minkowski space $IR_1^3 $.We have obtained some conditions for being $({K_{II},H})$, $({K_{II},K})$, timelike tubular Weingarten surfaces where are the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Ayse Zeynep Azak , Melek Masal , Serpil Halıcı

In the first part of the paper we present the dressing method which generates multi-soliton solutions to integrable systems of nonlinear partial differential equations. We compare the approach of Neugebauer with that of Zakharov, Shabat and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-03-25 Jan Cieśliński

In this paper we give Weierstrass-type representation formulas for the null curves and for the minimal Lorentz surfaces in the Minkowski 3-space $\mathbb R^3_1$ using real-valued functions. Applying the Weierstrass-type representations for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Krasimir Kanchev , Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

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

Some standard definitions and results concerning foliations of dimension one and codimension one are introduced. A proper time foliation of Minkowski space is defined and contrasted with the foliation that is defined by the time coordinate.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. Delphenich

Schwartz's solution to the Bj\"orling problem leads to an equivalence class of spatial strips S(t)=(c(t),n(t)) which produce equivalent minimal surfaces. For the particular case when the generating strip S(t) belongs to some plane E and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-12 Hugo Jiménez-Pérez , Santiago López de Medrano

We prove a globally hyperbolic spacetime with locally Lipschitz continuous metric and timelike distributional Ricci curvature bounded from below obeys the timelike measure contraction property. The remarkable class of examples of spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mathias Braun , Marta Sálamo Candal

The Levi-Civita Bertotti Robinson (LBR) spacetime is investigated in various coordinate systems. By means of a general formalism for constructing coordinates in conformally flat spacetimes, coordinate transformations between the different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-07 Oyvind Gron , Steinar Johannesen

We study 4 problems in the area of scattering of time harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves by unbounded rough surfaces/inhomogeneous layers. Specifically we study: i) a boundary value problem (BVP) for the Helmholtz equation, in both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Thomas Baden-Riess