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In this article we fully classify regular tubular surfaces in Euclidean, Lorentzian and hyperbolic 3-spaces whose Gaussian and mean curvatures $K$ and $H$ verify a polynomial relation. More precisely, we determine the set $S(Q)$ of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Alexandre Paiva Barreto , Fernando Gasparotto

We study the geometry of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ with corank $1$ singularities. For such surfaces the singularities are isolated and at each point we define the curvature parabola in the normal space. This curve codifies all the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Pedro Benedini Riul , Raúl Oset Sinha , Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas

We develop a global theory for complete hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. This theory extends the usual one of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Antonio Bueno , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

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

We approach the study of totally real immersions of smooth manifolds into holomorphic Riemannian space forms of constant sectional curvature -1. We introduce a notion of first and second fundamental form, we prove that they satisfy a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Francesco Bonsante , Christian El Emam

We give a summary of recent results on the explicit local form of the second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds in arbitrary dimension, and its global version. These spacetimes turn out to be essentially a specific subclass of plane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 O F Blanco , M Sánchez , J M M Senovilla

We give a generalized Weierstrass formula for a Lorentz surface conformally immersed in the four-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$ using spinors and Lorentz numbers. We also study the immersions of a Lorentzian surface in {\bf the}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Victor Patty

We consider an inverse problem associated with some 2-dimensional non-compact surfaces with conical singularities, cusps and regular ends. Our motivating example is a Riemann surface $\mathcal M = \Gamma\backslash{\bf H}^2$ associated with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Hiroshi Isozaki , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas

The Gauss map of non-degenerate surfaces in the three-dimensional Minkowski space are viewed as dynamical fields of the two-dimensional O(2,1) Nonlinear Sigma Model. In this setting, the moduli space of solutions with rotational symmetry is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Manuel Barros , Magdalena Caballero , Miguel Ortega

We investigate geometric invariants of cuspidal edges on focal surfaces of regular surface. In particular, we shall clarify the sign of the singular curvature at a cuspidal edge on a focal surface using singularities of parallel surface of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Keisuke Teramoto

We prove a Gauss-Bonnet formula for the extrinsic curvature of complete surfaces in hyperbolic space under some assumptions on the asymptotic behaviour. The result is given in terms of the measure of geodesics intersecting the surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Gil Solanes

The geometric Cauchy problem for a class of surfaces in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of dimension 3 is to find the surface which contains a given curve with a prescribed tangent bundle along the curve. We consider this problem for constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-15 David Brander , Martin Svensson

For spacelike stationary (i.e. zero mean curvature) surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentz space one can naturally introduce two Gauss maps and Weierstrass representation. In this paper we investigate their global geometry systematically. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Zhiyu Liu , Xiang Ma , Changping Wang , Peng Wang

We discuss (arbitrary-dimensional) Lorentzian manifolds and the scalar polynomial curvature invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives. Recently, we have shown that in four dimensions a Lorentzian spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alan Coley , Sigbjorn Hervik , Nicos Pelavas

We study the global geometry of surfaces in Sasakian space forms whose mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle (these include the Riemannian Heisenberg space of dimension $2n+1$). We prove a codimension reduction theorem. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Dorel Fetcu , Harold Rosenberg

We make a systematic study of the focal surface of a congruence of lines in the projective space. Using differential techniques together with techniques from intersection theory, we reobtain in particular all the invariants of the focal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. Arrondo , M. Bertolini , C. Turrini

Roughly speaking, the problem of geography asks for the existence of varieties of general type after we fix some invariants. In dimension $1$, where we fix the genus, the geography question is trivial, but already in dimension $2$, it…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Yerko Torres-Nova

For a two-dimensional surface in the four-dimensional Euclidean space we introduce an invariant linear map of Weingarten type in the tangent space of the surface, which generates two invariants k and kappa. The condition k = kappa = 0…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We study discrete Lorentzian spectral geometry by investigating to what extent causal sets can be identified through a set of geometric invariants such as spectra. We build on previous work where it was shown that the spectra of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Yasaman K. Yazdi , Marco Letizia , Achim Kempf

We study the variation of a smooth volume form along extremals of a variational problem with nonholonomic constraints and an action-like Lagrangian. We introduce a new invariant describing the interaction of the volume with the dynamics and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Andrei Agrachev , Davide Barilari , Elisa Paoli