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We give a detailed description of the geometry of isotropic space, in parallel to those of Euclidean space within the realm of Laguerre geometry. After developing basic surface theory in isotropic space, we define spin transformations,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Joseph Cho , Dami Lee , Wonjoo Lee , Seong-Deog Yang

A marginally trapped surface in the four-dimensional Minkowski space is a spacelike surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at each point. We associate a geometrically determined moving frame field to such a surface and using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We show that the singularities of spacelike maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space generically consist of cuspidal edges, swallowtails and cuspidal cross caps. The same result holds for spacelike mean curvature one surfaces in de…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Shoichi Fujimori , Kentaro Saji , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

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 investigate the geometric properties of marginally trapped surfaces (surfaces which have null mean curvature vector) in the spaces of oriented geodesics of Euclidean 3-space and hyperbolic 3-space, endowed with their canonical neutral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Brendan Guilfoyle , Nikos Georgiou

Spacelike intrinsic rotational surfaces with constant mean curvature in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\E_1^3$ have been recently investigated by Brander et al., extending the known Smyth's surfaces in Euclidean space. Assuming that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Seher Kaya , Rafael López

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

In this paper, we investigate the differential geometric properties of lightcone framed surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space. In general, a mixed type surface is a connected regular surface with non-empty spacelike and timelike point sets.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Chang Xu , Liang Chen

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

In this paper, we work on the marginally trapped surfaces in the 4-dimensional Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space-times. We obtain the complete classification of the marginally trapped surfaces in the Minkowski space-time with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Nurettin Cenk Turgay

Generalized Weierstrass representations for generic surfaces conformally immersed into four-dimensional Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces of different signatures are presented. Integrable deformations of surfaces in these spaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. G. Konopelchenko

We establish what semi-discrete linear Weingarten surfaces with Weierstrass-type representations in $3$-dimensional Riemannian and Lorentzian spaceforms are, confirming their required properties regarding curvatures and parallel surfaces,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Masashi Yasumoto , Wayne Rossman

Space-like maximal surfaces and time-like minimal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski3-space are both characterized as zero mean curvature surfaces. We are interested in the case where the zero mean curvature surface changes type from space-like…

Applying the general theory about complete spacelike stationary (i.e. zero mean curvature) surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentz space $\mathbb{R}^4_1$, we classify those regular algebraic ones with total Gaussian curvature $-\int…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Xiang Ma , Peng Wang

In this paper, by using a special Euler-Ramanujan identity and the idea of Wick rotation, we show that a one-parameter family of solutions to the zero mean curvature equation in Lorentz-Minkowski $3$-space $\mathbb E_1^3$, namely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Subham Paul , Priyank Vasu , Siddharth Panigrahi , Rahul Kumar Singh

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 study singularities of spacelike, constant (non-zero) mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space $L^3$. We show how to solve the singular Bj\"orling problem for such surfaces, which is stated as follows: given a real…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-01 David Brander

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

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 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