Classification of ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-spaces (Q557189)

For a surface without points of vanishing Gaussian curvature, in a 3-dimensional Minkowski space \(E_{1}^{3}\) the second Gaussian curvature is defined formally. In the present article the authors classify the non-developable ruled surfaces in \(E_{1}^{3}\) for which a linear combination between two of the quantities, the Gaussian curvature \(K\), the second Gaussian curvature \(K_{II}\) and the mean curvature \(H\), is constant along the rulings. An analogous classification for surfaces in the Euclidean space was obtained by \textit{D. E. Blair} and \textit{T. Koufogiorgos} [Monatsh. Math. 113, No. 3, 177--181 (1992; Zbl 0765.53003)].