The Gauss map of timelike surfaces in R_ 1^ n

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Authors Jianqiao Hong

Publication date 27 October 1996

Published in Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss maptimelike surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Review text

The author obtains a necessary and sufficient condition for a map \(G : D \to G^*_{2,n}\) to be the Gauss map of a timelike surface \(S\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n_1\), where \(D\) is a simply connected domain in \(\mathbb{R}^2_1\) or a simply connected 2-dimensional Lorentzian manifold. A counterexample shows that a nonminimal timelike surface in \(\mathbb{R}^n_1\) cannot be essentially determined by its Gauss map.

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