Spacelike capillary surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space
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 vertices in a domain of 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 is part of (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane.
Cite
@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}
}