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Constant angle surfaces in Lorentzian Berger spheres

Differential Geometry 2017-05-30 v1

Abstract

In this work, we study helix spacelike and timelike surfaces in the Lorentzian Berger sphere \sε3\s_{\varepsilon}^3, that is the three-dimensional sphere endowed with a 11-parameter family of Lorentzian metrics, obtained by deforming the round metric on \s3\s^3 along the fibers of the Hopf fibration \s3\s2(1/2)\s^3\to \s^2({1}/{2}) by ε2-\varepsilon^2. Our main result provides a characterization of the helix surfaces in \sε3\s_{\varepsilon}^3 using the symmetries of the ambient space and a general helix in \sε3\s_{\varepsilon}^3, with axis the infinitesimal generator of the Hopf fibers. Also, we construct some explicit examples of helix surfaces in \sε3\s_{\varepsilon}^3.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10090,
  title  = {Constant angle surfaces in Lorentzian Berger spheres},
  author = {Irene I. Onnis and Apoena Passos Passamani and Paola Piu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10090},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 8 figures

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