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Spacelike capillary surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space

Differential Geometry 2010-10-15 v1

Abstract

For a compact spacelike constant mean curvature surface with nonempty boundary in the three-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space, we introduce a rotation index of the lines of curvature at the boundary umbilic point, which was developed by Choe \cite{Choe}. Using the concept of the rotation index at the interior and boundary umbilic points and applying the Poincar\'{e}-Hopf index formula, we prove that a compact immersed spacelike disk type capillary surface with less than 44 vertices in a domain of L3\Bbb L^3 bounded by (spacelike or timelike) totally umbilic surfaces is part of a (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane. Moreover we prove that the only immersed spacelike disk type capillary surface inside de Sitter surface in L3\Bbb L^3 is part of (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2810,
  title  = {Spacelike capillary surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space},
  author = {Juncheol Pyo and Keomkyo Seo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2810},
  year   = {2010}
}
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