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We solve the analogue of Bj\"orling's problem for Willmore surfaces via a harmonic map representation. For the umbilic-free case the problem and solution are as follows: given a real analytic curve $y_0$ in $S^3$, together with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-20 David Brander , Peng Wang

This paper aims to study the relationship between the timelike extremal hypersurfaces and the classical minimal surfaces. This target also gives the long time dynamics of timelike extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Weiping Yan , Weijia Li

We use the Bj\"orling problem in Lorentz-Minkowski space to obtain explicit parametrizations of maximal surfaces containing a circle and a helix. We investigate the Weierstrass representation of these surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Rafael López , Seher Kaya

The classical Bj\"orling problem is to find the minimal surface containing a given real analytic curve with tangent planes prescribed along the curve. We consider the generalization of this problem to non-minimal constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-02 David Brander , Josef F. Dorfmeister

This paper is devoted to the study of the singularity phenomenon of timelike extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$. We find that there are two explicit lightlike self-similar solutions to a graph representation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Weiping Yan

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

We show that the nonlinear wave equation corresponding to the minimal surface equation in Minkowski space time has global solutions for sufficiently small initial data. This is an interesting model in Lorentziann and is also the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans Lindblad

We discuss a short-time existence theorem of solutions to the initial value problem for a fourth-order dispersive flow for curves parametrized by the real line into a compact K\"ahler manifold. Our equations geometrically generalize a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Hiroyuki Chihara , Eiji Onodera

On any spacelike surface in a lightcone of four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space a distinguished smooth function is considered. It is shown how both extrinsic and intrinsic geometry of such a surface is codified by this function. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Alfonso Romero

In this paper we introduce a $\theta$-family of spacelike surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space R^4_1 based in two complex valued functions $a(w), \mu(w)$, which when they are holomorphic we will be dealing with a family of spacelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-10 M. P. Dussan , A. P. Franco Filho , R. S. Santos

Submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space are investigated from various mathematical viewpoints and are of interest also in relativity theory. We define the hyperbolic surface and the de Sitter surface of a curve in the spacelike hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Shyuichi Izumiya , Ana Claudia Nabarro , Andrea de Jesus Sacramento

We show existence and uniqueness for timelike minimal submanifolds in ambient Lorentz manifolds admitting a time function. The initial value formulation introduced and the conditions imposed on the initial data are given in purely geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-10 Olaf Milbredt

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

In this paper, we work on the marginally trapped surfaces in the 4-dimensional Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space-times. We obtain the complete classification of the marginally trapped surfaces in the Minkowski space-time with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Nurettin Cenk Turgay

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to the asymmetric $L_p$ Minkowski problem in $\mathbb{R}^2$ are established for $0 < p < 1$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Karoly J. Boroczky , Hai Trinh

We prove existence and uniqueness of entire spacelike hypersurfaces in the Minkowski space with prescribed negative scalar curvature, and with given values at infinity which stay at a bounded distance of a lightcone.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Bayard

We study the geometry of curves in the Minkowski space and in the de Sitter space, specially at points where the tangent direction is lightlike (i.e. has length zero) called lightlike points of the curve. We define the focal sets of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Ana Claudia Nabarro , Andrea de Jesus Sacramento

We study an area minimization problem for spacelike zero mean curvature surfaces in four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. The areas of these surfaces are compared of with the areas of certain marginally trapped surfaces having the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-29 Bennett Palmer

We consider a unit speed timelike curve $\alpha$ in Minkowski 4-space $E_1^4$ and denote the Frenet frame of $\alpha$ by $\{T,N,B_1,B_2\}$. We say that $\alpha$ is a generalized helix if one of the unit vector fields of the Frenet frame has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-09 Ahmad T. Ali , Rafael López

We consider a Dirichlet problem for the mean curvature operator in the Minkowski spacetime, obtaining a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a spacelike solution, with prescribed mean curvature, which is the graph of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Rossella Bartolo , Erasmo Caponio , Alessio Pomponio