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We investigate a correspondence between solutions $\lambda(x,y)$ of the Liouville equation \[ \Delta \lambda = -\varepsilon e^{-4\lambda}, \] and the Weierstrass representations of spacelike ($\varepsilon = 1$) and timelike ($\varepsilon =…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Adriana A. Cintra , Iury Domingos , Irene I. Onnis

In this work we firstly classify space-like surfaces in Minkowski space $\mathbb E^4_1$, de-Sitter space $\mathbb S^3_1$ and hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^3$ with harmonic Gauss map. Then we give a characterization and classification of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Uğur Dursun , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

A spacelike surface in the Minkowski 3-space is called a constant slope surface if its position vector makes a constant angle with the normal at each point on the surface. These surfaces completely classified in [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 385…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

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

The purpose in this paper is to study the maximal hypersurfaces with multiple light-cones in Lorentz-Minkowski space by considering the weak solutions to the mean curvature equation with multiple Dirac masses. Such solutions are constructed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Huyuan Chen , Ying Wang , Feng Zhou

On any timelike surface with zero mean curvature in the four-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce special geometric (canonical) parameters and prove that the Gauss curvature and the normal curvature of the surface satisfy a system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

In this paper, close surfaces are considered in 3-dimensional harmonic conformally flat space in point of the variation. It is shown that if the conformal vector field be tangent to surface and the sign of the mean curvature does not change…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Najma mosadegh , Esmaiel Abedi

We consider a special class of spacelike surfaces in the Minkowski 4-space which are one-parameter systems of meridians of the rotational hypersurface with timelike or spacelike axis. We call these surfaces meridian surfaces of elliptic or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

An extension of the classic Enneper-Weierstrass representation for conformally parametrised surfaces in multi-dimensional spaces is presented. This is based on low dimensional CP^1 and CP^2 sigma models which allow the study of the constant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-26 A. M. Grundland , W. J. Zakrzewski

We consider a special family of 2-dimensional timelike surfaces in the Minkowski 4-space $\mathbb{R}^4_1$ which lie on rotational hypersurfaces with timelike axis and call them meridian surfaces of elliptic type. We study the following…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Victoria Bencheva , Velichka Milousheva

In the present paper we consider a special class of Lorentz surfaces in the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with neutral metric which are one-parameter systems of meridians of rotational hypersurfaces with timelike or spacelike axis…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Betul Bulca , Velichka Milousheva

We investigate the geometric properties of lightlike surfaces in the Minkowski space $\R^{2,1}$, using Cartan's method of moving frames to compute a complete set of local invariants for such surfaces. Using these invariants, we give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Brian Carlsen , Jeanne N. Clelland

A translation surface in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\rr^3$ is a surface defined as the sum of two spatial curves. In this paper we present a classification of maximal surfaces of translation type. We prove that if a generating curve is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Rafael López

On any space-like W-surface in the three-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce locally natural principal parameters and prove that such a surface is determined uniquely up to motion by a special invariant function, which satisfies a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Georgi Ganchev , Vesselka Mihova

All spherically symmetric Riemannian metrics of constant scalar curvature in any dimension can be written down in a simple form using areal coordinates. All spherical metrics are conformally flat, so we search for the conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Patryk Mach , Niall Ó Murchadha

Submanifolds in Lorentz-Minkowski space are investigated from various mathematical viewpoints and are of interest also in relativity theory. We define the hyperbolic surface and the de Sitter surface of a curve in the spacelike hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Shyuichi Izumiya , Ana Claudia Nabarro , Andrea de Jesus Sacramento

In this paper we introduce a $\theta$-family of spacelike surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space R^4_1 based in two complex valued functions $a(w), \mu(w)$, which when they are holomorphic we will be dealing with a family of spacelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-10 M. P. Dussan , A. P. Franco Filho , R. S. Santos

This article surveys the Weierstrass representation of surfaces in the three- and four-dimensional spaces, with an emphasis on its relation to the Willmore functional. We also describe an application of this representation to constructing a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Iskander A. Taimanov

Quasiclassical generalized Weierstrass representation for highly corrugated surfaces with slow modulation in the three-dimensional space is proposed. Integrable deformations of such surfaces are described by the dispersionless…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Konopelchenko

Consider the Lorentz-Minkowski $3$-space $\mathbb{L}^3$ with the metric $dx^2+dy^2-dz^2$ in canonical coordinates $(x,y,z)$. A surface in $\mathbb{L}^3$ is said to be separable if satisfies an equation of the form $f(x)+g(y)+h(z)=0$ for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Seher Kaya , Rafael López