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We review part of the classical theory of curves and surfaces in $3$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. We focus in spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature pointing the differences and similarities with the Euclidean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Rafael López

We show that a minimal surface meeting a sphere at a 90-degree angle can be reflected across the sphere. Using this reflection, we prove the uniqueness that every embedded free boundary minimal annulus in a ball is necessarily the critical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Jaigyoung Choe

In this paper, we define two types of helicoidal surfaces of non-lightlike frontals in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space and investigate when they become lightcone framed base surfaces. Moreover, by constructing appropriate diffeomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Kaixin Yao , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we introduce the pseudo-torsion functions along spacelike curves whose curvature vector field has isolated lightlike points in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space, and prove the fundamental theorem. Moreover, we analyze the behavior of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Atsufumi Honda

In this study, we consider the notion of similar ruled surface for timelike and spacelike ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space. We obtain some properties of these special surfaces in E_1^3 and we show that developable ruled surfaces in E_1^3…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-31 Mehmet Önder

Parity of particle number is a new degree of freedom for manipulating metasurface, while its influence on controlling non-local metasurfaces remains an unresolved and intriguing question. We propose a metasurface consisting of periodically…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Hao Song , Xuelian Zhang , Yanming Sun , Guo Ping Wang

The differential cross-section for the reflection of light beams off rigid bodies obtained by the rotation of a generic derivable convex function is calculated. The calculation is developed using elementary notions of calculus and is…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-03-05 Marco Giliberti , Luca Perotti

We show that a complete embedded maximal surface in the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $L^3$ with a finite number of singularities is, up to a Lorentzian isometry, an entire graph over any spacelike plane asymptotic to a vertical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Isabel Fernandez , Francisco J. Lopez , Rabah Souam

It is a well known phenomenon that many classical minimal surfaces in Euclidean space also exist with higher dihedral symmetry. More precisely, these surfaces are solutions to free boundary problems in a wedge bounded by two vertical planes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Ramazan Yol

We analyse the optical (or microwave) tunnelling properties of electromagnetic waves passing through thin films presenting a specific index profile providing a cut-off frequency, when they are used below this frequency. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Shvartsburg , Guillaume Petite

The paper presents a generalized Weierstrass representation for pseudospherical surfaces in terms of 3x3 matrices, using moving frames and loop group decompositions. The construction of all such surfaces, starting from a given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Magdalena Toda

In this paper we give an algebraic construction of the (active) reflected Dirich- let form. We prove that it is the maximal Silverstein extension whenever the given form does not possess a killing part and we prove that Dirichlet forms need…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Marcel Schmidt

An approximation theorem for minimal surfaces by complete minimal surfaces of finite total curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is obtained. This Mergelyan type result can be extended to the family of complete minimal surfaces of weak finite total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francisco J. Lopez

We use geometrical optics and the caustic-touching theorem to study, in an exact way, the change in the topology of the image of an object obtained by reflections on an arbitrary smooth surface. Since the procedure that we use to compute…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edwin Román-Hernández , Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza

A maximal coupling of two diffusion processes makes two diffusion particles meet as early as possible. We study the uniqueness of maximal couplings under a sort of "reflection structure" which ensures the existence of such couplings. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kazumasa Kuwada

The coherent reflectivity of a dense, relativistic, ultra-thin electron layer is derived analytically for an obliquely incident probe beam. Results are obtained by two-fold Lorentz transformation. For the analytical treatment, a plane…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui-Chun Wu , Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn

We prove that maximal annuli in $\mathbb{L}^{3}$ bounded by circles, straight lines or cone points in a pair of parallel spacelike planes are part of either a Lorentzian catenoid or a Lorentzian Riemann's example. We show that under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-02 Juncheol Pyo

A translation surface in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\rr^3$ is a surface defined as the sum of two spatial curves. In this paper we present a classification of maximal surfaces of translation type. We prove that if a generating curve is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Rafael López

A microscopic approach is developed to scattering of surface states from a non-magnetic linear defect at a surface with strong spin-orbit interaction. Spin-selective reflection resonances in scattering of Rashba-split surface states by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 I. A. Nechaev , E. E. Krasovskii

In this study we give definitions and characterizations of transversal surfaces of timelike ruled surfaces. We study some special cases such as the striction curve is a geodesic, an asymptotic line or a line of curvature. Moreover, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Mehmet Önder