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In this work we introduce the notion of constant angle null hypersurface of a Lorentzian manifold with respect to a given ambient vector field. We analyze the case in which the vector field is closed and conformal, thus finding that such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Samuel Chable-Naal , Matias Navarro , Didier A Solis

We construct and investigate smooth orientable surfaces in su(N) algebras. The structural equations of surfaces associated with Grassmannian sigma models on Minkowski space are studied using moving frames adapted to the surfaces. The first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. M. Grundland , L. Snobl

A zero mean curvature surface in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space is said to be of Riemann-type if it is foliated by circles and at most countably many straight lines in parallel planes. We classify all zero mean curvature surfaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Shintaro Akamine

The purpose of this article is to determine explicitly the complete surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector, both in the complex projective plane and the complex hyperbolic plane. The main results are as follows: When the curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Katsuei Kenmotsu

A local classification of spacelike surfaces in Minkowski 4-space, which are invariant under spacelike rotations, and with mean curvature vector either vanishing or lightlike, is obtained. Furthermore, the existence of such surfaces with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-05 Stefan Haesen , Miguel Ortega

It is known that any maximal space-like surface without isotropic points in the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with neutral metric admits locally geometric parameters which are special case of isothermal parameters. With respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

In this work, we study spacelike surfaces in Minkowski space $E_1^3$ foliated by pieces of circles and that satisfy a linear Weingarten condition of type $a H+b K=c$, where $a,b$ and $c$ are constant and $H$ and $K$ denote the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Ozgur Boyacioglu Kalkan , Rafael López , Derya Saglam

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

In this paper we characterize and classify surfaces in ${\mathbb{H}}^2\times{\mathbb{R}}$ which have a canonical principal direction. Here ${\mathbb{H}}^2$ denotes the hyperbolic plane. We study some geometric properties such as minimality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-24 Franki Dillen , Marian Ioan Munteanu , Ana Irina Nistor

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

We study rotational surfaces with constant Minkowski Gaussian curvature and rotational surfaces with constant Minkowski mean curvature in a $3$-dimensional normed space with rotationally symmetric norm. We have a generalization of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Makoto Sakaki

In this paper we study an extension of the Bernstein Theorem for minimal spacelike surfaces of the four dimensional Minkowski vector space form and we obtain the class of those surfaces which are also graphics and have non-zero Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-02 M. P. Dussan , A. P. Franco Filho , R. S. Santos

In a previous paper we classified complete stationary surfaces (i.e. spacelike surfaces with zero mean curvature) in 4-dimensional Lorentz space $\mathbb{R}^4_1$ which are algebraic and with total Gaussian curvature $-\int…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Xiang Ma

We prove that, in Minkowski space, if a spacelike, $(n-1)$-convex hypersurface $M$ with constant $\sigma_{n-1}$ curvature has bounded principal curvatures, then $M$ is convex. Moreover, if $M$ is not strictly convex, after an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Changyu Ren , Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

We prove that any regular domain in Minkowski space is uniquely foliated by spacelike constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces. This completes the classification of entire spacelike CMC hypersurfaces in Minkowski space initiated by Choi…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Francesco Bonsante , Andrea Seppi , Peter Smillie

With several concrete examples of zero mean curvature surfaces in $\boldsymbol{R}^3_1$ containing a light-like line recently having been found, here we construct all real analytic germs of zero mean curvature surfaces by applying the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

A normal field on a spacelike surface in $R^4_1$ is called bi-normal if $K^{\nu}$, the determinant of Weingarten map associated with $\nu$, is zero. In this paper we give a relationship between the spacelike pseudo-planar surfaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Dang Van Cuong

A marginally trapped surface in the four-dimensional Minkowski space is a spacelike surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at each point. In the present paper we find all marginally trapped surfaces with pointwise 1-type Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Velichka Milousheva

Minimal surfaces of general type in Euclidean 4-space are characterized with the conditions that the ellipse of curvature at any point is centered at this point and has two different principal axes. Any minimal surface of general type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

We prove that the Gauss curvature and the curvature of the normal connection of any minimal surface in the four dimensional Euclidean space satisfy an inequality, which generates two classes of minimal surfaces: minimal surfaces of general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-23 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva