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The satisfactory development of Quaternionic Analysis has indicated new solutions for physical and mathematical problems. It is worth mentioning the fact that quaternions possess four dimensions, and in this way they may be considered as…

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I show that all FRW models (four dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with maximally symmetric space) can be embedded in a flat Minkowski manifold with 5 dimensions. The pseudo Riemannian metric of space-time is induced by the flat…

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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…

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In this paper, by the studying of the Gauss map, Laplacian operator, curvatures of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}_{1}^{3}$ and Bour's theorem, we are going to identify surfaces of revolution with pointwise 1-type Gauss map property in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-30 V. Milani , A. Shojaei-Fard

We construct embedded triply periodic zero mean curvature surfaces of mixed type in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space with the same topology as the Schwarz D surface in the Euclidean 3-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Shoichi Fujimori , Wayne Rossman , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada , Seong-Deog Yang

We consider a combinatorial reconfiguration problem on a subclass of quadrangulations of surfaces called square-tiled surfaces. Our elementary move is a shear in a cylinder that corresponds to a well-chosen sequence of diagonal flips that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Vincent Delecroix , Clément Legrand-Duchesne

We consider the timelike minimal surface problem in Minkowski spacetimes and show local and global existence of such surfaces having arbitrary dimension $\geq 2$ and arbitrary co-dimension, provided they are initially close to a flat plane.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Allen , Lars Andersson , James Isenberg

Minimal surfaces play a fundamental role in differential geometry, with applications spanning physics, material science, and geometric design. In this paper, we explore a novel quaternionic representation of minimal surfaces, drawing an…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Amedeo Altavilla , Hans-Peter Schröcker , Zbyněk Šír , Jan Vršek

We propose a novel iterative numerical method to solve the three-dimensional inverse obstacle scattering problem of recovering the shape of the obstacle from far-field measurements. To address the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Junqing Chen , Bangti Jin , Haibo Liu

Author of this article created for the first time the method for finding solutions of the Minkowski problem for closed surfaces in Riemannian space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-04 Andrei I. Bodrenko

In this paper, we develop a high order numerical method for the numerical solutions of scattering problems with slightly perturbed periodic surfaces in two dimensional spaces. Based on the regularity property introduced in Part I, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Ruming Zhang

We study the class of spacelike surfaces in the four-dimensional Minkowski space whose mean curvature vector at any point is a non-zero spacelike vector or timelike vector. These surfaces are determined up to a motion by eight invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-21 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

A surface in a Riemannian space is called of constant astigmatism if the difference between the principal radii of curvatures at each point is a constant function. In this paper we give a classification of all rotational surfaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Rafael López , Álvaro Pámpano

In this work we firstly classify space-like surfaces in Minkowski space $\mathbb E^4_1$, de-Sitter space $\mathbb S^3_1$ and hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^3$ with harmonic Gauss map. Then we give a characterization and classification of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Uğur Dursun , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

We find all analytic surfaces in space R^3 such that through each point of the surface one can draw two circular arcs fully contained in the surface. The proof uses a new decomposition technique for quaternionic matrices.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-14 A. Pakharev , M. Skopenkov

Rough surface scattering problems are always very challenging both theoretically and numerically. In this paper, we adopt the Bloch transform and the perturbation theory to investigate a special case, i.e., when the rough surface is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Ruming Zhang

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,…

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We improve on recent results that establish the existence of solutions of certain semilinear wave equations possessing an interface that roughly sweeps out a timelike surface of vanishing mean curvature in Minkowski space. Compared to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Mohammad El Smaily , Robert L. Jerrard

In this paper, an analytical method that solves the forward displacement problem of several common spherical parallel manipulators (SPMs) is presented. The method uses the the quaternion algebra to restate the problem as a system of four…

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