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Variational principles are developed within the framework of a spinor representation of the surface geometry to examine the equilibrium properties of a membrane or interface. This is a far-reaching generalization of the Weierstrass-Enneper…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-17 Jemal Guven , Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the authors' recent attempts toward a better understanding of the global concepts behind spinor representations of surfaces in 3-space. The important new aspect is a quaternionic-valued…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Burstall , D. Ferus , K. Leschke , F. Pedit , U. Pinkall

In this paper, we obtain Weierstrass representations for discrete constant mean curvature surfaces in isotropic 3-space, and use this to construct examples with discrete closed-form parametrizations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Joseph Cho , Masaya Hara

We study the generalization of the Willmore functional for surfaces in the three-Heisenberg group. Its construction is based on the spectral theory of the Dirac operator coming to the Weierstrass representation of surfaces (see…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-13 Dmitry A. Berdinsky , Iskander A. Taimanov

In this paper we present a torus solution to the generalized Weierstrass-Enneper representation of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4$. The key analytical technique will be Bloch wave functions with complex wave vectors. We will also discuss some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Christopher Levi Duston

The main objective of this paper is to derive the Enneper-Weierstrass representation of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{E}^3$ using the soliton surface approach. We exploit the Bryant-type representation of conformally parametrized surfaces in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 A Doliwa , A M Grundland

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

We give a local representation for the pseudoholomorphic surfaces in Euclidean spheres in terms of holomorphic data. Similar to the case of the generalized Weierstrass representation of Hoffman and Osserman, we assign such a surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-14 M. Dajczer , Th. Vlachos

Quasiclassical generalized Weierstrass representation (GWR) for highly corrugated surfaces with slow modulation in the four-dimensional Euclidean space is proposed. Integrable deformations of such surfaces are described by the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 B. G. Konopelchenko

Spinor representations of surfaces immersed into 4-dimensional pseudo-riemannian manifolds are defined in terms of minimal left ideals and tensor decompositions of Clifford algebras. The classification of spinor fields and Dirac operators…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

This paper is devoted to a study of the connection between the immersion functions of two-dimensional surfaces in Euclidean or hyperbolic spaces and classical orthogonal polynomials. After a brief description of the soliton surfaces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Vincent Chalifour , Alfred Michel Grundland

A conformal map from a Riemann surface to a Euclidean space of dimension greater than or equal to three is explained by using the Clifford algebra, in a similar fashion to quaternionic holomorphic geometry of surfaces in the Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Katsuhiro Moriya

A discrete harmonic surface is a trivalent graph which satisfies the balancing condition in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space and achieves energy minimizing under local deformations. Given a topological trivalent graph, a holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Motoko Kotani , Hisashi Naito

A quaternionic calculus for surface pairs in the conformal 4-sphere is elaborated. This calculus is then used to discuss the relation between curved flats in the symmetric space of point pairs and Darboux and Christoffel pairs of isothermic…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Udo Hertrich-Jeromin

Using an integrable discrete Dirac operator, we construct a discrete version of the Weierstrass representation of time-like surfaces parametrized along isotropic directions in $R^{2,1}$, $R^{3,1}$ and $R^{2,2}$. The corresponding discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Dmitry Zakharov

A new approach is proposed for study structure and properties of the total squared mean curvature $W$ of surfaces in ${\bf R}^3$. It is based on the generalized Weierstrass formulae for inducing surfaces. The quantity $W$ (Willmore…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 B. G. Konopelchenko , I. A. Taimanov

The Davey-Stewartson equations are used to describe the long time evolution of a three-dimensional packets of surface waves. Assuming that the argument functions are quadratic in spacial variables, we find in this paper various exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-11 Xiaoping Xu

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

We solve the analogue of Bj\"orling's problem for Willmore surfaces via a harmonic map representation. For the umbilic-free case the problem and solution are as follows: given a real analytic curve $y_0$ in $S^3$, together with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-20 David Brander , Peng Wang

Weierstrass-type representations have been used extensively in surface theory to create surfaces with special curvature properties. In this paper we give a unified description of these representations in terms of classical transformation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Mason Pember