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A marginally trapped surface in a spacetime is a Riemannian surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at every point. In this paper we give an up-to-date overview of the differential geometric study of these surfaces in Minkowski, de…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Kristof Dekimpe , Joeri Van der Veken

We give a conformal representation in terms of meromorphic data for a certain class of spacelike surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 4-space L^4 whose mean curvature vector is either lightlike or zero at each point. This representation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juan A. Aledo , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

We introduce surface Minkowski tensors to characterize rotational symmetries of shapes embedded in curved surfaces. The definition is based on a modified vector transport of the shapes boundary co-normal into a reference point which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Lea Happel , Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

We first define a complex angle between two oriented spacelike planes in 4-dimensional Minkowski space, and then study the constant angle surfaces in that space, i.e. the oriented spacelike surfaces whose tangent planes form a constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Pierre Bayard , Juan Monterde , Raúl C. Volpe

In this paper, first we study on Bour's theorem for four kinds of timelike helicoidal surfaces in 4-dimensional Minkowski space. Secondly, we analyse the geometric properties of these isometric surfaces having same Gauss map. Also, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Burcu Bektaş Demirci , Murat Babaarslan , Yasin Küçükarikan

We study an area minimization problem for spacelike zero mean curvature surfaces in four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. The areas of these surfaces are compared of with the areas of certain marginally trapped surfaces having the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-29 Bennett Palmer

In this paper, using the classifications of timelike and spacelike ruled surfaces, we define and study the Mannheim offsets of spacelike ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space. We give the conditions for spacelike offset surfaces to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Mehmet Önder , H. Huseyin Uğurlu

We study rotational surfaces in Euclidean 3-space whose Gauss curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. By means of a phase plane analysis and under mild assumptions on the prescribed function, we generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Antonio Bueno , Irene Ortiz

We discuss boosts in a deformed Minkowski space, i.e. a four-dimensional space-time with metric coefficients depending on non-metric coordinates (in particular on the energy). The general form of a boost in an arbitrary direction is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Cardone , Alessio Marrani , Roberto Mignani

For a surface in 3-sphere, by identifying the conformal round 3-sphere as the projectivized positive light cone in Minkowski 5-spacetime, we use the conformal Gauss map and the conformal transform to construct the associate homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Jie Qing , Changping Wang , Jingyang Zhong

We prove that the Gauss map of a surface of constant mean curvature embedded in Minkowski space is harmonic. This fact will then be used to study 2+1 gravity for surfaces of genus higher than one. By considering the energy of the Gauss map,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Raymond S. Puzio

Using 1-twist rim surgery, we construct infinitely many smoothly embedded, orientable surfaces in the 4-ball bounding a knot in the 3-sphere that are pairwise topologically isotopic, but not ambient diffeomorphic. We distinguish the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-08 András Juhász , Maggie Miller , Ian Zemke

We consider closed and orientable immersed hypersurfaces of translational manifolds. Given a vector field on such a hypersurface, we define a perturbation of its Gauss map, which allows us to obtain topological invariants for the immersion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Ícaro Gonçalves , Eduardo Longa

We present a topological proof of the existence of invariant manifolds for maps with normally hyperbolic-like properties. The proof is conducted in the phase space of the system. In our approach we do not require that the map is a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-03-11 Maciej J Capinski , Piotr Zgliczynski

In the Normed space theory, the existence of fixed points is one of the main tools in improving efficiency of iterative algorithms in optimization, numerical analysis and various mathematical applications. This study introduces and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Akansha Tyagi , Sachin Vashistha

We propose DeMapGS, a structured Gaussian Splatting framework that jointly optimizes deformable surfaces and surface-attached 2D Gaussian splats. By anchoring splats to a deformable template mesh, our method overcomes topological…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shuyi Zhou , Shengze Zhong , Kenshi Takayama , Takafumi Taketomi , Takeshi Oishi

In this work, we study spacelike surfaces in Minkowski space $E_1^3$ foliated by pieces of circles and that satisfy a linear Weingarten condition of type $a H+b K=c$, where $a,b$ and $c$ are constant and $H$ and $K$ denote the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Ozgur Boyacioglu Kalkan , Rafael López , Derya Saglam

The Minkowski problem in convex geometry concerns showing that a given Borel measure on the unit sphere is, up to perhaps a constant, some type of surface area measure of a convex body. Two types of Minkowski problems in particular are an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Dylan Langharst , Jiaqian Liu , Shengyu Tang

In this article, we study spacelike and timelike rotational surfaces in a 3--dimensional de Sitter space $\mathbb{S}^3_1$ which are the orbit of a regular curve under the action of the orthogonal transformation of 4--dimensional Minkowski…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Burcu Bektaş Demirci

In this paper, we prove that time-like constant slope surfaces can be reparametrized by using rotation matrices corresponding to unit time-like split quaternions and homothetic motions. Afterwards we give some examples to illustrate our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli