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The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on manifolds $(M, c)$ endowed with a pseudoconformal structure $c = CO (n - 1, 1)$ of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

Concerning the value distribution problem for generalized Gauss maps, we not only generalize Fujimoto's theorem to complete space-like stationary surfaces in Minkowski spacetime, but also estimate the upper bound of the number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Li Ou , Chuanmiao Cheng , Ling Yang

Isophote comprises a locus of the surface points whose normal vectors make a constant angle with a fixed vector. In this paper, isophote curves are studied on timelike surfaces in Minkowski 3-space E31. The axises of spacelike and timelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Fatih Dogan

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 shall prove that space-like surfaces with bounded mean curvature functions in real analytic Lorentzian 3-manifolds can change their causality to time-like surfaces only if the mean curvature functions tend to zero.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Atsufumi Honda , Miyuki Koiso , Masatoshi Kokubu , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

A spacelike surface in the Minkowski 3-space is called a constant slope surface if its position vector makes a constant angle with the normal at each point on the surface. These surfaces completely classified in [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 385…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

As in the case of minimal surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space, the reflection principle for maximal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space asserts that if a maximal surface has a spacelike line segment $L$, the surface is invariant under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Shintaro Akamine , Hiroki Fujino

We obtain isometric minimal helicoidal and rotational surfaces using generalized Bour's theorem in three dimensional Minkowski space. In addition, we show that the surfaces preserve minimality when their Gauss maps identically equal,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Erhan Güler , Yusuf Yaylı

In this paper, we study the Lorentzian minimal surfaces in the Minkowski space-time with finite type Gauss map. First, we obtain the classification of this type of surfaces with pointwise 1-type Gauss map. Then, we proved that there are no…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Nurettin Cenk Turgay

The 2-parameter family of certain homogeneous Lorentzian 3-manifolds which includes Minkowski 3-space, de Sitter 3-space, and Minkowski motion group is considered. Each homogeneous Lorentzian 3-manifold in the 2-parameter family has a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Sungwook Lee

We study the geometry and topology of real analytic maps $\mathbb{C}^n \to \mathbb{C}^k$, where $n > k$, regarded as mixed maps, defined below. Firstly, we give two natural families of mixed isolated complete intersection singularities,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Inácio Rabelo , José Seade

We apply the complex analysis over the double numbers $D$ to study the minimal time-like surfaces in $R^4_2$. A minimal time-like surface which is free of degenerate points is said to be of general type. We divide the minimal time-like…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

Nontrivial isometric embeddings for flat metrics (i.e., those which are not just planes in the ambient space) can serve as useful tools in the description of gravity in the embedding gravity approach. Such embeddings can additionally be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 S. A. Paston , T. I. Zaitseva

A class of elliptic-hyperbolic equations is placed in the context of a geometric variational theory, in which the change of type is viewed as a change in the character of an underlying metric. A fundamental example of a metric which changes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas H. Otway

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework for identifying Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) in manifolds with non-constant curvature, extending the theory to Finsler manifolds. By leveraging Riemannian and Finsler geometry, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

A Lorentz surface in the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with neutral metric is called quasi-minimal if its mean curvature vector is lightlike at each point. In the present paper we obtain the complete classification of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Velichka Milousheva , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

We investigate basic properties of mappings of finite distortion $f:X \to \mathbb{R}^2$, where $X$ is any metric surface, i.e., metric space homeomorphic to a planar domain with locally finite $2$-dimensional Hausdorff measure. We introduce…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Damaris Meier , Kai Rajala

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 propose a new approach to the study of rotational surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space based on the notion of the geometric linear momentum of the generatrix curves with respect to the axes of revolution. This technique allows us to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Paula Carretero , Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes

A hypersurface in a Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^{n+1}$ is said to be a generalized constant ratio (GCR) hypersurface if the tangential part of its position vector is one of its principle directions. In this work, we move the study of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Mahmut Ergüt , Alev Kelleci , Nurettin Cenk Turgay