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We first describe the numerical invariants attached to the second fundamental form of a spacelike surface in four-dimensional Minkowski space. We then study the configuration of the nu-principal curvature lines on a spacelike surface, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Pierre Bayard , Federico Sánchez-Bringas

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

Using Green's theorem we reduce the variation of the total mean curvature of a smooth surface in the Euclidean 3-space to a line integral of a special vector field and obtain the following well-known theorem as an immediate consequence: the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-10 Victor Alexandrov

On any timelike surface with zero mean curvature in the four-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce special geometric (canonical) parameters and prove that the Gauss curvature and the normal curvature of the surface satisfy a system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

In this paper we address the existence and uniqueness of entire spacelike hypersurfaces in the Lorentz--Minkowski space $\mathbb{L}^{m+1}$ with prescribed mean curvature that are star-shaped with respect to a point and asymptotic to a light…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Gabriele Cora , Alessandro Iacopetti , Lorenzo Maniscalco

In this paper, we consider time-like surfaces in the static space-time given by the warped product $\mathbb L^3_1(c)\, _f\times (I,dz^2)$, where $\mathbb L^3_1(c)$ denotes the Lorentzian space form with the constant sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Furkan Kaya , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

This paper concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional Minkowski space in relation to their Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge is uniquely foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Francesco Bonsante , Andrea Seppi , Peter Smillie

We consider Lorentz surfaces in $\mathbb R^3_1$ satisfying the condition $H^2-K\neq 0$, where $K$ and $H$ are the Gauss curvature and the mean curvature, respectively, and call them Lorentz surfaces of general type. For this class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Krasimir Kanchev , Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

We give a comprehensive account of zero mean curvature surfaces in isotropic 3-space with planar curvature lines. After giving a complete classification all such surfaces, we show that they belong to a 1-parameter family of surfaces. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Joseph Cho , Masaya Hara

In this work we find all helicoidal surfaces in Minkowski space with constant mean curvature whose generating curve is a the graph of a polynomial or a Lorentzian circle. In the first case, we prove that the degree of the polynomial is $0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Rafael López , Esma Demir

We develop an invariant local theory of Lorentz surfaces in pseudo-Euclidean 4-space by use of a linear map of Weingarten type. We find a geometrically determined moving frame field at each point of the surface and obtain a system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Yana Aleksieva , Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We rigorously show the existence of a rotationally and centrally symmetric "lens-shaped" cluster of three surfaces, meeting at a smooth common circle, forming equal angles of 120 degrees, self-shrinking under the motion by mean curvature.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Pietro Baldi , Emanuele Haus , Carlo Mantegazza

We generalize Iskovskih's theorem about surfaces without irregularity and bigenus from the smooth case to regular surfaces over arbitrary fields, with special focus on the case of imperfect fields. This includes surfaces that are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Andrea Fanelli , Stefan Schröer

Quasi-spherical light cones are lightlike hypersurfaces of the Kerr geometry that are asymptotic to Minkowski light cones at infinity. We develop the equations of these surfaces and examine their properties. In particular, we show that they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Frans Pretorius , Werner Israel

We obtain a gradient estimate for the Gauss maps from complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space into the hyperbolic space. As applications, we prove a Bernstein theorem which says that if the image of the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Huai-Dong Cao , Ying Shen , Shunhui Zhu

In this paper, we consider a fully nonlinear curvature flow of a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean n-space. This flow involves k-th elementary symmetric function for principal curvature radii and a function of support function. Under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Hongjie Ju , Boya Li , Yannan Liu

We show that the singularities of spacelike maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space generically consist of cuspidal edges, swallowtails and cuspidal cross caps. The same result holds for spacelike mean curvature one surfaces in de…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Shoichi Fujimori , Kentaro Saji , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

In this paper we solve the Plateau problem for spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature in Lorentz-Minkowski three-space $\l^3$ and spanning two circular (axially symmetric) contours in parallel planes. We prove that rotational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafael Lopez

Given a constant vector field $Z$ in Minkowski space, a timelike surface is said to have a canonical null direction with respect to $Z$ if the projection of $Z$ on the tangent space of the surface gives a lightlike vector field. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Victor H. Patty-Yujra , Gabriel Ruiz-Hernández

We establish Bernstein-type theorems for entire constant mean curvature graphs in the three-dimensional light cone $\mathbb{Q}^3_+$ over the horosphere under the assumption that the Gaussian curvature $K$ is bounded below, by showing that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Shintaro Akamine , Wonjoo Lee , Seong-Deog Yang