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We investigate a variational problem in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$ whose critical points are spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature and making constant contact angle with a given support surface along its common boundary.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this work, we study the pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds of a pseudo-sphere with 1-type pseudo-spherical Gauss map. First, we classify the Lorentzian surfaces in a 4-dimensional pseudo-sphere $\mathbb{S}^4_s(1)$ with index s, $s=1, 2$, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Burcu Bektaş , Elif Özkara Canfes , Uğur Dursun

In this paper, we can obtain curvature estimates for spacelike admissible graphic hypersurfaces in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{1}$, and through which the existence of spacelike admissible graphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ya Gao , Jie Li , Jing Mao , Zhiqi Xie

In this paper, we determine the type numbers of the pseudo-hyperbolic Gauss maps of all oriented Lorentzian surfaces of constant mean and Gaussian curvatures and non-diagonalizable shape operator in the $3$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Honoka Kobayashi , Naoyuki Koike

In this paper we study curvature types of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional (normed or) Minkowski spaces. By endowing the surface with a normal vector field, which is a transversal vector field given by the ambient Birkhoff…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Ralph Teixeira

We prove existence and stability of smooth entire strictly convex spacelike hypersurfaces of prescribed Gauss curvature in Minkowski space. The proof is based on barrier constructions and local a priori estimates.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Bayard , Oliver C. Schnürer

Several uniqueness results for non-compact complete stationary spacelike surfaces in an $n(\geq 3)$-dimensional Generalized Robertson Walker spacetime are obtained. In order to do that, we assume a natural inequality involving the Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Danilo Ferreira , Eraldo A. Lima , Alfonso Romero

The conformal geometry of surfaces in the conformal space $\mathbf Q^n_1$ is studied. We classify the space-like surfaces in $\mathbf Q^n_1$ with vanishing conformal form up to conformal equivalence.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Changxiong Nie

A local classification of spacelike surfaces in Minkowski 4-space, which are invariant under spacelike rotations, and with mean curvature vector either vanishing or lightlike, is obtained. Furthermore, the existence of such surfaces with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-05 Stefan Haesen , Miguel Ortega

A surface in the Lorentz-Minkowski $3$-space is generally a mixed type surface, namely, it has the lightlike locus. We study local differential geometric properties of such a locus on a mixed type surface. We define a frame field along a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Atsufumi Honda , Shyuichi Izumiya , Kentaro Saji , Keisuke Teramoto

We give a complete classification of Riemannian and Lorentzian surfaces of arbitrary codimension in a pseudo-sphere whose pseudo-spherical Gauss maps are of 1-type or, in particular, harmonic. In some cases a concrete global classification…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Burcu Bektaş , Joeri Van der Veken , Luc Vrancken

In this paper, we generalize the defining equation for de Sitter space by replacing the de Sitter radius with a function $f$ satisfying certain conditions; each resulting hypersurface is diffeomorphic to de Sitter space, and has a geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-27 David N. Pham

We investigate surfaces with constant harmonic-mean curvature one (HMC-1 surfaces) in hyperbolic three-space. We allow them to have certain kinds of singularities, and discuss some global properties. As well as flat surfaces and surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Kokubu

On any spacelike surface in a lightcone of four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space a distinguished smooth function is considered. It is shown how both extrinsic and intrinsic geometry of such a surface is codified by this function. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Alfonso Romero

We consider the problem $F=f(\nu)$ for strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space and solve it for curvature functions $F$ the inverses of which are of class $(K^*)$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claus Gerhardt

We prove that an isometric immersion of a timelike surface in four-dimensional Minkowski space is equivalent to a normalized spinor field which is a solution of a Dirac equation on the surface. Using the quaternions and the complex numbers,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Victor H. Patty-Yujra

A hypersurface in a Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^{n+1}$ is said to be a generalized constant ratio (GCR) hypersurface if the tangential part of its position vector is one of its principle directions. In this work, we move the study of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Mahmut Ergüt , Alev Kelleci , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

We are concerned with spacelike convex hypersurfaces of positive constant (K-hypersurfaces) or prescribed Gauss curvature in Minkowski space. Our main purpose is to study entire solutions as well as the Dirichlet problem in bounded domains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bo Guan , Huaiyu Jian , Richard M. Schoen

Let $M$ be an orientable surface immersed in the De Sitter space $S_1^3$ in $R^4_1$ or anti de Sitter space $H_1^3$ in $R^4_2$. In the case that $M$ is of $L_1$-2-type we prove that the following conditions are equivalent to each other: $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 S. Carolina García-Martínez , Pascual Lucas , H. Fabián Ramírez-Ospina

In this paper we introduce the fourth fundamental form for the hypersurfaces in $H^{n+1}$ and the space-like hypersurfaces in $S_{1}^{n+1}$ and discuss the conformality of the normal Gauss maps of the hypersurfaces in $H^{n+1}$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shuguo Shi