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In this paper, we investigate the differential geometric properties of lightcone framed surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space. In general, a mixed type surface is a connected regular surface with non-empty spacelike and timelike point sets.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Chang Xu , Liang Chen

In this paper we study an extension of the Bernstein Theorem for minimal spacelike surfaces of the four dimensional Minkowski vector space form and we obtain the class of those surfaces which are also graphics and have non-zero Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-02 M. P. Dussan , A. P. Franco Filho , R. S. Santos

In this paper, we prove several fundamental properties on umbilics of a space-like or time-like surface in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $L^3$. In particular, we show that the local behavior of the curvature line flows of the germ of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Naoya Ando , Masaaki Umehara

In the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space we prove that the sign of the Gaussian curvature of any timelike minimal surface is determined by the degeneracy and the orientations of the two null curves that generate the surface. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Shintaro Akamine

We obtain a complete classification of ruled zero mean curvature surfaces in the three-dimensional light cone. En route, we examine geodesics and screw motions in the space form, allowing us to discover helicoids. We also consider their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Joseph Cho , Dami Lee , Wonjoo Lee , Seong-Deog Yang

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

Zero mean curvature surfaces in the simply isotropic 3-space $\mathbb{I}^3$ naturally appear as intermediate geometry between geometry of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{E}^3$ and that of maximal surfaces in $\mathbb{L}^3$. In this paper, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Shintaro Akamine , Hiroki Fujino

We review part of the classical theory of curves and surfaces in $3$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. We focus in spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature pointing the differences and similarities with the Euclidean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Rafael López

If the Lorentzian norm on a maximal surface in the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $R_1^3$ is positive and proper, then the surface is relative parabolic. As a consequence, entire maximal graphs with a closed set of isolated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Isabel Fernandez , Francisco J. Lopez

In this paper, by using a special Euler-Ramanujan identity and the idea of Wick rotation, we show that a one-parameter family of solutions to the zero mean curvature equation in Lorentz-Minkowski $3$-space $\mathbb E_1^3$, namely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Subham Paul , Priyank Vasu , Siddharth Panigrahi , Rahul Kumar Singh

A timelike minimal surface in Minkowski 3-space is a surface whose induced metric is Lorentzian and with vanishing mean curvature. Such surfaces have many kinds of singularities. In this paper, we prove existence and non-existence theorems…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Shintaro Akamine

The geometry and topology of complete nonorientable maximal surfaces with lightlike singularities in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space are studied. Some topological congruence formulae for surfaces of this kind are obtained. As a consequence,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-12 Shoichi Fujimori , Francisco J. Lopez

The purpose in this paper is to study the maximal hypersurfaces with multiple light-cones in Lorentz-Minkowski space by considering the weak solutions to the mean curvature equation with multiple Dirac masses. Such solutions are constructed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Huyuan Chen , Ying Wang , Feng Zhou

It is well-known that every cuspidal edge in the Euclidean space E^3 cannot have a bounded mean curvature function. On the other hand, in the Lorentz-Minkowski space L^3, zero mean curvature surfaces admit cuspidal edges. One natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 T. Fukui , R. Kinoshita , D. Pei , M. Umehara , H. Yu

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

The lightlike geometry of codimension two spacelike submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space has been developed in [Izumiya, S. and Romero Fuster, M. C. Selecta Mathematica (NS), 13 23--55 (2007)] which is a natural Lorentzian analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Atsufumi Honda , Shyuichi Izumiya

In this paper, we classify the nondegenerate ruled surfaces in the three-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space that are homothetic self-similar solutions for the inverse mean curvature flow. This classification shows the existence of two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Gregório Silva Neto , Vanessa Silva

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

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

We survey Bernstein-type theorems for graphical surfaces in the Euclidean space and the Lorentz-Minkowski space. More specifically, we explain several proofs of the Bernstein theorem for minimal graphs in the Euclidean 3-space. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yu Kawakami