An introduction to Lorentz surfaces

zbMath0881.53001MaRDI QIDQ1919994

Tilla Klotz Milnor

Publication date: 18 August 1996

Published in: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Riemann surfacesMinkowski spaceWeierstrass representationconformal boundaryPoincaré indextimelike minimal surfaceLorentz surfacesassociated minimal surfaces

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