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Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare , Sorin Mardare

We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-18 Thierry Barbot , François Béguin , Abdelghani Zeghib

A representation of generalized Weierstrass formulae for an immersion of generic surfaces into a 4-dimensional complex space in terms of spinors treated as minimal left ideals of Clifford algebras is proposed. The relation between…

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

In this study we give definitions and characterizations of transversal surfaces of timelike ruled surfaces. We study some special cases such as the striction curve is a geodesic, an asymptotic line or a line of curvature. Moreover, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Mehmet Önder

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

In this paper, we get the time evolution equations of the curvature and torsion of the evolving spacelike curves in the Minkowski space. Also, we give inextensible evolutions of timelike ruled surfaces that are produced by the timelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Dae Won Yoon , Zuhal Kucukarslan Yuzbasi , Ebru Cavlak Aslan

In this paper, first we study on Bour's theorem for four kinds of timelike helicoidal surfaces in 4-dimensional Minkowski space. Secondly, we analyse the geometric properties of these isometric surfaces having same Gauss map. Also, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Burcu Bektaş Demirci , Murat Babaarslan , Yasin Küçükarikan

In this paper, we study relatively normal-slant helices lying on timelike as well as spacelike surfaces in Minkowski $3$-space $ \mathbb{E}_1^3$. The axes of spacelike and timelike relatively normal-slant helices are obtained via their…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Akhilesh Yadav , Ajay Kumar Yadav

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

Integrable systems are derived from inelastic flows of timelike, spacelike, and null curves in 2- and 3- dimensional Minkowski space. The derivation uses a Lorentzian version of a geometrical moving frame method which is known to yield the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-09-09 Kvilcim Alkan , Stephen C. Anco

In this paper, we can obtain curvature estimates for spacelike admissible graphic hypersurfaces in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{1}$, and through which the existence of spacelike admissible graphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ya Gao , Jie Li , Jing Mao , Zhiqi Xie

The minimal Lorentzian surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4_2$ whose first normal space is two-dimensional and whose Gauss curvature $K$ and normal curvature $\varkappa$ satisfy $K^2-\varkappa^2 >0$ are called minimal Lorentzian surfaces of general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Ognian Kassabov , Velichka Milousheva

We review part of the classical theory of curves and surfaces in $3$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. We focus in spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature pointing the differences and similarities with the Euclidean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Rafael López

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

In this paper, we establish equiform differential geometry of space and timelike curves in 4-dimensional Minkowski space. We obtain some conditions for these curves. Also, general helices with respect to their equiform curvatures are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-13 H. S. Abdel-Aziz , M. Khalifa Saad , A. A. Abdel-Salam

We construct embedded triply periodic zero mean curvature surfaces of mixed type in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space with the same topology as the Schwarz D surface in the Euclidean 3-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Shoichi Fujimori , Wayne Rossman , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada , Seong-Deog Yang

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

Using Konderak's representation formula, we construct an entire zero-mean curvature graph of mixed-type in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space over a space-like plane, which does not belong to the class of "Kobayashi surfaces". We also point out the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Takeki Komatsu , Masaaki Umehara

We use integrable systems techniques to study the singularities of timelike non-minimal constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space. The singularities arise at the boundary of the Birkhoff big cell of the loop…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 David Brander , Martin Svensson

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