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Lorentz's group represented by the hypercomplex system of numbers, which is based on dirac matrices, is investigated. This representation is similar to the space rotation representation by quaternions. This representation has several…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-01 Konstantin Karplyuk , Oleksandr Zhmudskyy

Wigner's little groups are the subgroups of the Lorentz group whose transformations leave the momentum of a given particle invariant. They thus define the internal space-time symmetries of relativistic particles. These symmetries take…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Sibel Baskal , Young S. Kim , Marilyn E. Noz

We study minimal timelike surfaces in $\mathbb R^3_1$ using a special Weierstrass-type formula in terms of holomorphic functions defined in the algebra of the double (split-complex) numbers. We present a method of obtaining an equation of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

We show that to every maximal surface with conelike singularities in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{L}^3$ that can be locally represented as the graph of a smooth function, there exists a corresponding timelike minimal surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Aryaman Patel

We construct new integrable systems to present Weierstrass type representations for spacelike surfaces whose mean curvature vector $\mathbf{H}$ satisfies the null condition $\langle \mathbf{H}, \mathbf{H} \rangle=0$ in the four dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Hojoo Lee

In this paper, we employ the loop group method to study the construction of minimal Lagrangian surfaces in the complex projective plane for which the surface is contractible. We present several new classes of minimal Lagrangian surfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Hui Ma

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

Here, we classify Lie groups acting isometrically on compact Lorentz manifolds, and in particular we describe the geometric structure of compact homogeneous Lorentz manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Abdelghani Zeghib

The Weierstrass representation for minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ provides a flexible method for constructing minimal surfaces of arbitrary genus. The topological limitations of minimal surfaces interfere with this providing a more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Peter Connor

We extend the techniques introduced in \cite{DoMaB1} for contractible Riemann surfaces to construct minimal Lagrangian immersions from arbitrary Riemann surfaces into $\mathbb{C}P^2$ via the loop group method. Based on the potentials of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Hui Ma

In this paper we will construct a Weierstrass type representation for minimal surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian Damek-Ricci spaces and we give some examples of such surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Adriana A. Cintra , Francesco Mercuri , Irene I. Onnis

We develop a loop group (DPW-type) representation for minimal Lagrangian surfaces in the complex quadric $Q_{2}\cong \mathbb S^{2}\times \mathbb S^{2}$, formulated via a flat family of connections $\{\nabla^\lambda\}_{\lambda\in \mathbb…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Shimpei Kobayashi , Sihao Zeng

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

This paper studies timelike minimal surfaces in the De Sitter space $\mathbb S^3_1(1) \subset \mathbb R^4_1$ via a complex variable. Using complex analysis and stereographic projection of lightlike vectors we obtain a representation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-15 M. P. Dussan , A. P. Franco Filho , M. Magid

In this paper we provide a Weierstrass representation formula for translating solitons and singular minimal surfaces in ${\mathbb{R}^3}$. As application we study when the euclidean Gauss map has a harmonic argument and solve a general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Antonio Martínez , A. L. Martínez-Triviño

In this paper we give Weierstrass-type representation formulas for the null curves and for the minimal Lorentz surfaces in the Minkowski 3-space $\mathbb R^3_1$ using real-valued functions. Applying the Weierstrass-type representations for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Krasimir Kanchev , Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

We study minimal cylinders in the three-dimensional Heisenberg group ${\rm Nil}_3$ using the generalized Weierstrass type representation, the so-called loop group method. We characterize all non-vertical minimal cylinders in terms of pairs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Shimpei Kobayashi

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

We initiate the study of characters of surface groups and their corresponding tracial representations. We show that any tracial representation can be approximated arbitrarily well in the Wasserstein topology by factorial tracial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 David Gao , Adrian Ioana , Itamar Vigdorovich

This is a survey of results on surfaces in noncommutative three-dimensional Lie groups obtained by using the Weierstrass (spinor) representation of surfaces. It is based on the talk given at the conference "Geometry related to the theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-12 I. A. Taimanov