Higher order parallel surfaces in the Heisenberg group (Q2474208)

The authors consider \(k\)-parallel surfaces, i.e. surfaces that satisfy \(\nabla^kh=0\), immersed in the Heisenberg group. They give a classification of such surfaces, proving that every connected \(k\)-parallel surface in the Heisenberg group \(Nil_3\) is an open part of a vertical cylinder on a plane curve, whose curvature function is a polynomial function of degree at most \(k-1\) of the arc length.