Constant angle surfaces in Minkowski space (Q550438)
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Constant angle surfaces in Minkowski space (English)
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11 July 2011
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\textit{P. Cermelli} and \textit{A. J. di Scala} introduced in [``Constant angle surfaces in liquid crystals'', Philosophical Magazine 87, 1871--1888 (2007), \url{doi:10.1080/14786430601110364}] the notion of surfaces with constant angle as surfaces in the usual three-dimensional Euclidean space whose tangent planes form a constant angle with a fixed constant vector field. This kind of surfaces is used to describe interesting phenomena in physics. In the present paper, the ambient space is considered to be the three-dimensional Lorentzian space. More precisely, these surfaces are studied and classified and it is proved that they are all flat. Also, it is proved that a tangent developable surface is a constant angle surface in this framework if and only if the generating curve is a helix. There are a lot of examples with figures.
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constant angle surfaces
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Minkowski space
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helix
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