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We introduce a new approach to the study of timelike minimal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space through a split-complex representation formula for this kind of surface. As applications, we solve the Bj\"orling problem for timelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-15 Rosa M. B. Chaves , Martha P. Dussan , Martin Magid

Using techniques of integrable systems, we study a Weierstrass representation formula for timelike surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in Minkowski 3-space. It is shown that timelike minimal surfaces are obtained by integrating a pair…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sungwook Lee

We give a definition of generalized timelike Mannheim curve in Minkowski space-time $E_1^4$. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the generalized timelike Mannheim curve obtain. We show some characterizations of generalized Mannheim…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-14 M. Akyiǧit , S. Ersoy , i. öZgüR , M. Tosun

We give a different formulation for describing maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space, $\mathbb{L}^3$, using the identification of $\mathbb L^3$ with $\mathbb C\times \mathbb R$. Further we give a different proof for the singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Rukmini Dey , Pradip Kumar , Rahul Kumar Singh

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, the definition of generalized spacelike Mannheim curve in Minkowski space-time $E_1^4$ is given. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the generalized spacelike Mannheim curve are obtained. Also, some characterizations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Soley Ersoy , Murat Tosun , Hiroo Matsuda

Existence and uniqueness in ${\Bbb R}^{n,1}$ of entire spacelike hypersurfaces contained in the future of the origin $O$ and asymptotic to the light-cone, with scalar curvature prescribed at their generic point $M$ as a negative function of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-10 Pierre Bayard , Philippe Delanoë

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 study curves in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{L}^2$ that are critical points of the moment of inertia with respect to the origin. This extends a problem posed by Euler in the Lorentzian setting. We obtain explicit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López

We consider the timelike minimal surface problem in Minkowski spacetimes and show local and global existence of such surfaces having arbitrary dimension $\geq 2$ and arbitrary co-dimension, provided they are initially close to a flat plane.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Allen , Lars Andersson , James Isenberg

In this paper we investigate the existence and uniqueness of spacelike radial graphs of prescribed mean curvature in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{L}^{n+1}$, for $n\geq 2$, spanning a given boundary datum lying on the hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Denis Bonheure , Alessandro Iacopetti

In this paper, we define a rectifying spacelike curve in the Minkowski space-time $E_1^4$ as a curve whose position vector always lies in orthogonal complement $N^{\bot}$ of its principal normal vector field $N$. In particular, we study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-07 Ahmad T. Ali , Mehmet Onder

In this short note, we show that any rational curve passing through the generic point in a moduli space of stable bundles with rank $r$ and fixed determinant on a smooth projective curve of genus $g\ge 4$ has degree (with respect to the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaotao Sun

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

We study singularities of spacelike, constant (non-zero) mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space $L^3$. We show how to solve the singular Bj\"orling problem for such surfaces, which is stated as follows: given a real…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-01 David Brander

We study minimal timelike surfaces in $\mathbb R^3_1$ using a special Weierstrass-type formula in terms of holomorphic functions defined in the algebra of the double (split-complex) numbers. We present a method of obtaining an equation of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

We show existence and uniqueness for timelike minimal submanifolds (world volume of p-branes) in ambient Lorentz manifolds admitting a time function in a neighborhood of the initial submanifold. The initial value formulation introduced and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-23 Olaf Milbredt

In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for spacelike and timelike curves in a conformally flat, quasi conformally flat and conformally symmetric 4-dimensional \textit{LP}-Sasakian manifold to be proper biharmonic. Also,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Sadık Keleş , Selcen Yüksel Perktaş , Erol Kılıç

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 study lightlikeness preserving mappings from the $4$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime $\mathcal{M}_4$ to itself under no additional regularity assumptions like continuity, surjectivity, or injectivity. We prove that such a mapping $\phi$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Michiya Mori , Peter Šemrl
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