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We use variational arguments to introduce a notion of mean curvature for surfaces in the Heisenberg group H^1 endowed with its Carnot-Carath\'eodory distance. By analyzing the first variation of area, we characterize C^2 stationary surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Manuel Ritoré , César Rosales

In this paper, on the first, we prove $\Delta r=2H$ where $\Delta $ is the Laplacian operator, $r=\left( r_{1},r_{2},r_{3}\right) $ the position vector field and $H$ is the mean curvature vector field of a surface $\mathcal{S}$ in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Mohammed Bekkar

For constant mean curvature surfaces of class $C^2$ immersed inside Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifolds we obtain a formula for the second derivative of the area which involves horizontal analytical terms, the Webster scalar curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-27 César Rosales

We classify Riemannian surfaces admitting associated families in three dimensional homogeneous spaces with four-dimensional isometry groups and in a wide family of (semi-Riemannian) warped products, with an extra natural condition (namely,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Marie-Amélie Lawn , Miguel Ortega

In this article we survey recent developments in the theory of constant mean curvature surfaces in homogeneous 3-manifolds, as well as some related aspects on existence and descriptive results for $H$-laminations and CMC foliations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-10 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez , Giuseppe Tinaglia

We study the neutral K\"ahler metric on the space of time-like lines in Lorentzian ${\Bbb{E}}^3_1$, which we identify with the total space of the tangent bundle to the hyperbolic plane. We find all of the infinitesimal isometries of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

In this paper we generalized a result of Soley Ersoy and Kemal Eren [10] about Bonnet timelike surface in Minkowski 3-space. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a surface M in a Lorentzian 3-space to be timelike Bonnet surface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Athoumane Niang , Ameth Ndiaye , Adama Thiandoum

We study surfaces with a constant ratio of principal curvatures in Euclidean and simply isotropic geometries and characterize rotational, channel, ruled, helical, and translational surfaces of this kind under some technical restrictions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Khusrav Yorov , Mikhail Skopenkov , Helmut Pottmann

We describe in parallel the Lorentzian homogeneous spaces $G=\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ and $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{psl}(2,\mathbb{R})$, and review some recent results relating the geometry of their quotients by discrete groups.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-19 François Guéritaud

We prove a monotonicity result at specific points for the Horizontal Perimeter for a class of surfaces in the Heisenberg group.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-17 D. Danielli , N. Garofalo , D. M. Nhieu

We provide an explicit classification of the following four families of surfaces in any homogeneous 3-manifold with 4-dimensional isometry group: isoparametric surfaces, surfaces with constant principal curvatures, homogeneous surfaces, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Miguel Domínguez-Vázquez , José M. Manzano

This paper aims to show that there exists a triangulation of the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$ into singular simplexes with regularity properties on both the low-dimensional and high-dimensional layers. For low dimensions, we request our…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Giovanni Canarecci

It is shown that parts of planes, helicoids and hyperbolic paraboloids are the only minimal surfaces ruled by geodesics in the three dimensional Riemannian Heisenberg group. It is also shown that they are the only surfaces in the three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Young Wook Kim , Sung-Eun Koh , Hyung Yong Lee , Heayong Shin , Seong-Deog Yang

Let $I \subseteq \R$ be an open interval, $f : I \to \R$ a strictly positive function and denote by $\E^2$ the Euclidean plane. We classify all surfaces in the warped product manifold $I \times_f \E^2$ for which the unit normal makes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-21 Franki Dillen , Marian Ioan Munteanu , Joeri Van der Veken , Luc Vrancken

Defining Lorentzian Sabban frame of the unit speed time-like curves on de Sitter 2-space $\mathbb{S}^{2}_{1}$ and introducing space-like height function on the unit speed time-like curves on $\mathbb{S}^{2}_{1}$, the invariants of the unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

The perennial formalism is applied to the real, massive Klein-Gordon field on a globally-hyperbolic background space-time with compact Cauchy hypersurfaces. The parametrized form of this system is taken over from the accompanying paper. Two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Hajicek , C. J. Isham

Spacelike intrinsic rotational surfaces with constant mean curvature in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\E_1^3$ have been recently investigated by Brander et al., extending the known Smyth's surfaces in Euclidean space. Assuming that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Seher Kaya , Rafael López

We classify all homothetical surfaces with constant mean curvature $H$ in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^3$. Using the upper half-space model with standard coordinates $(x,y,z)$, these surfaces are defined by the relation $z =…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Rafael Belli , Rafael López

There are three types of hypersurfaces in a pseudoconformal space C^n_1 of Lorentzian signature: spacelike, timelike, and lightlike. These three types of hypersurfaces are considered in parallel. Spacelike hypersurfaces are endowed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

In this paper we study sets in the $n$-dimensional Heisenberg group $\hhn$ which are critical points, under a volume constraint, of the sub-Riemannian perimeter associated to the distribution of horizontal vector fields in $\hhn$. We define…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Manuel Ritoré , César Rosales