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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

We present a definition of discrete channel surfaces in Lie sphere geometry, which reflects several properties for smooth channel surfaces. Various sets of data, defined at vertices, on edges or on faces, are associated with a discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Udo Hertrich-Jeromin , Wayne Rossman , Gudrun Szewieczek

We present a discrete theory for modeling developable surfaces as quadrilateral meshes satisfying simple angle constraints. The basis of our model is a lesser known characterization of developable surfaces as manifolds that can be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Michael Rabinovich , Tim Hoffmann , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

We continue our investigations into Toda's algorithm [14,3]; a Weierstrass-type representation of Gauss curvature $K=-1$ surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We show that $C^0$ input potentials correspond in an appealing way to a special new class…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Ivan Sterling

We construct large families of harmonic morphisms which are holomorphic with respect to Hermitian structures by finding heierarchies of Weierstrass-type representations. This enables us to find new examples of complex-valued harmonic…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 P. Baird , J. C. Wood

Several classes of solutions of the generalized Weierstrass system, which induces constant mean curvature surfaces into four-dimensional Euclidean space are constructed. A gauge transformation allows us to simplify the system considered and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bracken , A. M. Grundland

We study manifolds with split-complex structure and apply some general results to the study of Lorentz surfaces. In particular, we apply our results to timelike minimal immersions. The conformal realization of these surfaces is obtained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Magdalena Toda

Relation between generalized Weierstrass representation for conformal immersion of generic surfaces into three-dimensional space and Lax-Phillips scattering theory for automorphic functions is considered.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

A space-like surface in Minkowski space-time is minimal if its mean curvature vector field is zero. Any minimal space-like surface of general type admits special isothermal parameters - canonical parameters. For any minimal surface of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

The generalized Weierstrass representation is used to analyze the asymptotic behavior of a constant mean curvature surface that arises locally from an ordinary differential equation with a regular singularity. We prove that a holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-14 M. Kilian , W. Rossman , N. Schmitt

This paper develops a discrete theory of real Riemann surfaces based on quadrilateral cellular decompositions (quad-graphs) and a linear discretization of the Cauchy-Riemann equations. We construct a discrete analogue of an antiholomorphic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Johanna Düntsch , Felix Günther

We give a survey on the Weierstrass representations of surfaces in three- and four-dimensional spaces, their applications to the theory of the Willmore functional and on related problems of spectral theory of the two-dimensional Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Iskander A. Taimanov

In this paper we obtain the general solution to the minimal surface equation, namely its local Weierstrass-Enneper representation, by using a system of hodographic coordinates. This is done by using the method of solving the Born-Infeld…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rukmini Dey

Recent successes in image generation, model-based reinforcement learning, and text-to-image generation have demonstrated the empirical advantages of discrete latent representations, although the reasons behind their benefits remain unclear.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 David Friede , Christian Reimers , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Mathias Niepert

The techniques used in this paper are based on the exterior calculus of Maurer-Cartan forms, and Weingarten surfaces are used to illustrate the methods that apply to quadratic exterior equations with constant coefficients. Isothermic {\it…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-22 Magdalena Toda

The minimal Lorentzian surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4_2$ whose first normal space is two-dimensional and whose Gauss curvature $K$ and normal curvature $\varkappa$ satisfy $K^2-\varkappa^2 >0$ are called minimal Lorentzian surfaces of general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

We give a simple, direct proof of the easy fact about the Weierstrass Representation, namely, that it always gives a minimal surface. Most presentations include the much harder converse that every simply connected minimal surface is given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Roshan Sharma

We define discrete flat surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space from the perspective of discrete integrable systems and prove properties that justify the definition. We show how these surfaces correspond to previously defined discrete constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Tim Hoffmann , Wayne Rossman , Takeshi Sasaki , Masaaki Yoshida

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

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