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A class of surfaces-graphs in a Riemannian 3-space with a prescribed projection of one field of principal directions onto a surface $\Pi$ is considered. A problem of determination of such surfaces when both principal curvatures are given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-11 Vladimir Rovenski , Leonid Zelenko

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

We study the problem of isometrically embedding a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean three-space. It is shown that if Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two smooth curves tangent at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Tsung-Yin Lin

Consider the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ endowed with a canonical semi-symmetric non-metric connection determined by a vector field $\mathsf{C}\in\mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. We study surfaces when the sectional curvature with respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López , Adela Mihai

In the work \cite{Laredo} the author shows that every hypersurface in Euclidean space is locally associated to the unit sphere by a sphere congruence, whose radius function $R$ is a geometric invariant of hypersurface. In this paper we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Laredo Rennan Pereira Santos , Armando Mauro Vasquez Corro

A conformal metric on a 4-ball induces on the boundary 3-sphere a conformal metric and a trace-free second fundamental form. Conversely, such a data on the 3-sphere is the boundary of a unique selfdual conformal metric, defined in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olivier Biquard

Motivated by Felix Klein's notion that geometry is governed by its group of symmetry transformations, Charles Ehresmann initiated the study of geometric structures on topological spaces locally modeled on a homogeneous space of a Lie group.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-12 William M. Goldman

In [2], the authors develop a global correspondence between immersed weakly horospherically convex hypersurfaces $\phi:M^n \to \mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ and a class of conformal metrics on domains of the round sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$. Some of the key…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Vincent Bonini , Jie Qing , Jingyong Zhu

In this paper, we study biconservative surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field ($PNMC$) in the $4$-dimensional unit Euclidean sphere $\mathbb{S}^4$. First, we study the existence and uniqueness of such surfaces. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Simona Nistor , Cezar Oniciuc , Nurettin Cenk Turgay , Rüya Yeğin Şen

We study the equation for improper (parabolic) affine spheres from the view point of contact geometry and provide the generic classification of singularities appearing in geometric solutions to the equation as well as their duals. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Go-o Ishikawa , Yoshinori Machida

We determine the local structure of all pseudo-Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ in dimensions $n\ge4$ whose Weyl conformal tensor $W$ is parallel and has rank 1 when treated as an operator acting on exterior 2-forms at each point. If one fixes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Andrzej Derdzinski , Witold Roter

We give a criterion for certain generic nondegenerate surfaces in a fake weighted projective $3$-space to have Picard number $>1$. These algebraic surfaces are of general type. We do this by considering degenerations (along an edge),…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Julius Giesler

Let $N$ be a Riemannian, Lorentzian or neutral $4$-dimensional space form with constant sectional curvature $L_0$. In this paper, noticing the linearly dependent condition, we obtain characterizations of space-like surfaces in $N$ with flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Naoya Ando , Ryusei Hatanaka

We show that closed surfaces with minimal total absolute curvature in Cartan-Hadamard 3-manifolds bound flat convex bodies. This generalizes Chern-Lashof's theorem for surfaces in Euclidean space and solves a problem posed by Gromov in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Mohammad Ghomi , Joseph Ansel Hoisington , Matteo Raffaelli , John Ioannis Stavroulakis

We study isoparametric hypersurfaces, whose principal curvatures are all constant, in the pseudo-Riemannian space forms. In this paper, we investigate two topics. Firstly, according to representations of Clifford algebras, we give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Yuta Sasahara

The gauge bundle of the 4-dim conformal group over an 8-dim base space, called biconformal space, is shown have a consistent interpretation as a scale-invariant phase space. Specifically, we show that a classical Hamiltonian system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 James T. Wheeler

We show the flexibility of the metric entropy and obtain additional restrictions on the topological entropy of geodesic flow on closed surfaces of negative Euler characteristic with smooth non-positively curved Riemannian metrics with fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Thomas Barthelmé , Alena Erchenko

Any ruled surface in Euclidean 3-space is described as a curve of unit dual vectors in the algebra of dual quaternions (=the even Clifford algebra of type (0,3,1)). Combining this classical framework and Singularity Theory, we characterize…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-03 Junki Tanaka , Toru Ohmoto

We study the local equivalence problems of curves and surfaces in three dimensional Heisenberg group via Cartans method of moving frames and Lie groups, and find a complete set of invariants for curves and surfaces. For surfaces, in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Hung-Lin Chiu , Sin-Hua Lai

A homothetical surface arises as a graph of a function $z = \varphi_1(v_1) \varphi_2(v_2)$. In this paper, we study the homothetical surfaces in three dimensional psuedo-Galilean space$\left(\mathbb{G}_3^1\right)$ satisfying the conditions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Mohamd Saleem Lone