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Space-like maximal surfaces and time-like minimal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski3-space are both characterized as zero mean curvature surfaces. We are interested in the case where the zero mean curvature surface changes type from space-like…

A maximum principle for C^0 null hypersurfaces is obtained and used to derive a splitting theorem for spacetimes which contain null lines. As a consequence of this null splitting theorem, it is proved that an asymptotically simple vacuum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Gregory J. Galloway

A connected regular surface in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space is called a mixed type surface if the spacelike, timelike and lightlike point sets are all non-empty. Lightlike points on mixed type surfaces may be regarded as singular points of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Atsufumi Honda

Utilizing the Weierstrass representation for embedded doubly periodic minimal surfaces with parallel ends, we construct entire singly periodic graphs of spacelike maximal surfaces with isolated cone-like singularities in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Peter Connor , Shoichi Fujimori

In the previous paper, the authors constructed a complete holomorphic immersion of the unit disk D into C^2 whose image is bounded. In this paper, we shall prove existence of complete holomorphic null immersions of Riemann surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-30 Francisco Martin , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

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 the relation of the sign of the Gaussian and mean curvature of modular surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski $3$-space to the zeroes of the associated complex analytic functions and its derivatives. Further, we completely…

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

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth, entire, strictly convex, spacelike, constant $\sigma_k$ curvature hypersurfaces with prescribed lightlike directions in Minkowski space. This is equivalent to prove the existence of smooth,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

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

Hilbert-Efimov theorem states that any complete surface with curvature bounded above by a negative constant can not be isometrically imbedded in $\mathbb{R}^3.$ We demonstrate that any simply-connected smooth complete surface with curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Bing-Long Chen , Le Yin

Let $M^{n+1}_1$ be a light-like geodesically complete Lorentzian $(n+1)$-manifold satisfying the null energy condition. We show that null hypersurfaces properly immersed in $M^{n+1}_1$ are totally geodesic.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Shintaro Akamine , Atsufumi Honda , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

In this paper we establish some parabolicity criteria for maximal surfaces immersed into a Lorentzian product space of the form $M^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$, where $M^2$ is a connected Riemannian surface with non-negative Gaussian curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-23 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

In this paper we establish new Calabi-Bernstein results for maximal surfaces immersed into a Lorentzian product space of the form $M^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$, where $M^2$ is a connected Riemannian surface and $M^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$ is endowed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

We show that to every maximal surface with conelike singularities in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{L}^3$ that can be locally represented as the graph of a smooth function, there exists a corresponding timelike minimal surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Aryaman Patel

In this study, we define some new types of non-null ruled surfaces called slant ruled surfaces in the Minkowski 3-space E_1^3. We introduce some characterizations for a non-null ruled surface to be a slant ruled surface in E_1^3. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Mehmet Önder

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

Consider a convex domain B of space. We prove that there exist complete minimal surfaces which are properly immersed in B. We also demonstrate that if D and D' are convex domains with D bounded and the closure of D contained in D' then any…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francisco Martin , Santiago Morales

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

Until now, the only known maximal surfaces in Minkowski 3-space of finite topology with compact singular set and without branch points were either genus zero or genus one, or came from a correspondence with minimal surfaces in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-13 Shoichi Fujimori , Wayne Rossman , Masaaki Umehara , Seong-Deog Yang , Kotaro Yamada

The existence of embedded minimal surfaces in non-compact 3-manifolds remains a largely unresolved and challenging problem in geometry. In this paper, we address several open cases regarding the existence of finite-area, embedded, complete,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Baris Coskunuzer , Zheng Huang , Ben Lowe , Franco Vargas Pallete