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We describe an algorithm for determining a minimal Weierstrass equation for hyperelliptic curves over principal ideal domains. When the curve has a rational Weierstrass point $w_0$, we also give a similar algorithm for determining the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Qing Liu

It is shown that timelike surfaces of constant mean curvature 1 in anti-de Sitter 3-space can be constructed from a pair of Lorentz holomorphic and Lorentz antiholomorphic null curves in PSL(2,R) via Bryant type representation formulae.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sungwook Lee

The geometry and topology of complete nonorientable maximal surfaces with lightlike singularities in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space are studied. Some topological congruence formulae for surfaces of this kind are obtained. As a consequence,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-12 Shoichi Fujimori , Francisco J. Lopez

We give a generalized Weierstrass formula for a Lorentz surface conformally immersed in the four-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$ using spinors and Lorentz numbers. We also study the immersions of a Lorentzian surface in {\bf the}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Victor Patty

Timelike surfaces in the three-dimensional Heisenberg group with left invariant semi-Riemannian metric are studied. In particular, non-vertical timelike minimal surfaces are characterized by the non-conformal Lorentz harmonic maps into the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Hirotaka Kiyohara , Shimpei Kobayashi

We survey Bernstein-type theorems for graphical surfaces in the Euclidean space and the Lorentz-Minkowski space. More specifically, we explain several proofs of the Bernstein theorem for minimal graphs in the Euclidean 3-space. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yu Kawakami

We study an area minimization problem for spacelike zero mean curvature surfaces in four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. The areas of these surfaces are compared of with the areas of certain marginally trapped surfaces having the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-29 Bennett Palmer

Calabi observed that there is a natural correspondence between the solutions of the minimal surface equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with those of the maximal spacelike surface equation in $\mathbb{L}^3$. We are going to show how this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Antonio Martínez , A. L. Martínez Triviño

We derive a correspondence between (Lorentzian) harmonic maps into the pseudosphere $S_1^2$, with appropriate regularity conditions, and certain connection 1-forms. To these harmonic maps, we associate a representation of type Weierstrass,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Josef Dorfmeister , Junichi Inoguchi , Magdalena Toda

This paper is about interpolating minimal surfaces between two real analytic curves, a and b, each of which are simple real analytic curves, using the Bj\"{o}rling-Schwarz formula in the domain where it is valid, changing the normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Rukmini Dey

We give an immersion formula, the Sym-Bobenko formula, for minimal surfaces in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg space. Such a formula can be used to give a generalized Weierstrass type representation and construct explicit examples of minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Sébastien Cartier

In this paper we define and analyze singularities of discrete linear Weingarten surfaces with Weierstrass-type representations in $3$-dimensional Riemannian and Lorentzian spaceforms. In particular, we discuss singularities of discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Wayne Rossman , Masashi Yasumoto

In this paper we give a geometrically invariant spinorial representation of surfaces in four-dimensional space forms. In the Euclidean space, we obtain a representation formula which generalizes the Weierstrass representation formula of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Pierre Bayard , Marie-Amelie Lawn , Julien Roth

We construct a class of Lorentzian harmonic maps into the de-Sitter $2$-space satisfying the eigenvalue equation $\Box N=2H^2N$ for the d'Alambert operator $\Box$ and a non-zero constant $H$ from framed null curves. We also investigate two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Shintaro Akamine , Hirotaka Kiyohara

We survey structure-preserving discretizations of minimal surfaces in Euclidean space. Our focus is on a discretization defined via parallel face offsets of polyhedral surfaces, which naturally leads to a notion of vanishing mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Wai Yeung Lam , Masashi Yasumoto

Consider a surface $S$ immersed in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space $\boldsymbol R^3_1$. A complete light-like line in $\boldsymbol R^3_1$ is called an entire null line on the surface $S$ in $\boldsymbol R^3_1$ if it lies on $S$ and consists…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Shintaro Akamine , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

In this paper we develop the theory of approximation for holomorphic null curves in the special linear group ${\rm SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$. In particular, we establish Runge, Mergelyan, Mittag-Leffler, and Carleman type theorems for the family…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Antonio Alarcon , Jorge Hidalgo

Isometric class of minimal surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space $\mathbb{R}^3$ has the rigidity: if two simply connected minimal surfaces are isometric, then one of them is congruent to a surface in the specific one-parameter family, called…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Shintaro Akamine

We characterize constant mean curvature surfaces in the three-dimensional Heisenberg group by a family of flat connections on the trivial bundle $\D \times \GL$ over a simply connected domain $\mathbb{D}$ in the complex plane. In particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-26 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Shimpei Kobayashi

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