A time-like surface in Minkowski 3-space which contains light-like lines (Q1288023)

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A time-like surface in Minkowski 3-space which contains light-like lines
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    A time-like surface in Minkowski 3-space which contains light-like lines (English)
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    15 July 1999
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    The authors prove that a timelike surface in Minkowski 3-space is locally a pseudosphere or a timelike plane if it contains two lightlike curves or one lightlike curve and two non-lightlike planar geodesics through each point.
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    timelike surface
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    Minkowski 3-space
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    lightlike curves
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