Surfaces in pseudo-Riemannian space forms with zero mean curvature vector (Q2176591)

This work characterizes a space-like surfaces in a pseudo-Riemannian space form with zero mean curvature vector, in terms of complex quadratic differentials on the surface as sections of a holomorphic line bundle sections of a holomorphic line bundle, and combining them, a holomorphic quartic differential. If the ambient space is \(S^4\) or \(S^4_1,\) then the differentials are given in some papers of R. Bryant and, in the second case, it coincides with a holomorphic quartic differential on a Willmore surface in \(S^3\) corresponding to the original surface through the conformal Gauss map. In addition, the author defines the conformal Gauss maps of surfaces in \(E^3\) and \(H^ 3\), and space-like surfaces in \(S^3_1,\) \(E^3_1,\) \( H^3_1\) and the cone of future-directed light-like vectors of \(E^4_1\), and obtains results which are analogous to those for the conformal Gauss map of a surface in \(S^3.\)