Invariant surfaces of a three-dimensional manifold with constant Gauss curvature (Q2568415)

Let \(N^3\) be a \(3\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold and \(G_X\) a one-parameter group acting on \(N^3\) induced by a Killing vector field \(X\). (\(G_X\) is a subgroup of the group \(G\) of all isometries of \(N^3\).) An immersion \(f: M^2 \longrightarrow N^3\) of a \(2\)-surface \(M^2\) into \(N^3\) is called \(G_X\)-equivariant if \(f(gx) = gf(x)\) for all \(x\in M^2\) and for all \(g\in G_X\). In their paper the authors give a local description of those \(G_X\)- equivariant immersions of a surface \(M^2\) into a Riemannian \(3\)-manifold \(N^3\) that induce on \(M^2\) a metric of constant Gauss curvature. They apply their result to the \(3\)-manifolds \({\mathbb H}^2\times {\mathbb R}\) and \({\mathbb H}^3\) where \({\mathbb H}^2\) denotes the half-plane model of the hyperbolic plane and \({\mathbb H}^3\) is the \(3\)-dimensional Heisenberg space.