Affine equivalences of surfaces of translation and minimal surfaces, and applications to symmetry detection and design (Q2141557)

In this paper, authors introduce a characterization for affine equivalence of two surfaces of translation defined by either rational or meromorphic generators. As a consequence, a similar characterization for minimal surfaces is obtained. In the rational case, it is shown that the results presented provide algorithms for detecting affine equivalence of these surfaces, and in particular, the symmetries of a surface of translation or a minimal surface of the considered types. Finally, author apply the obtained results to designing surfaces of translation and minimal surfaces with symmetries, and to computing the symmetries of the higher-order Enneper surfaces.