Surfaces of revolution with prescribed mean and skew curvatures in Lorentz-Minkowski space

DOI10.2748/TMJ.20190729MaRDI QIDQ2075397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luiz C. B. da Silva

Publication date 14 February 2022

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00259

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvaturesurface of revolutionLorentz-Minkowski spaceLorentz numberskew curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: In this work, we investigate the problem of finding surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space with prescribed skew ($S$) and mean ($H$) curvatures, which are defined through the discriminant of the characteristic polynomial of the shape operator and its trace, respectively. After showing that $H$ and $S$ can be interpreted in terms of the expected value and standard deviation of the normal curvature seen as a random variable, we address the problem of prescribed curvatures for surfaces of revolution. For surfaces with a non-lightlike axis and prescribed $H$, the strategy consists in rewriting the equation for $H$, which is initially a nonlinear second order Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE), as a linear first order ODE with coefficients in a certain ring of hypercomplex numbers along the generating curves: complex numbers for curves on a spacelike plane and Lorentz numbers for curves on a timelike plane. We also solve the problem for surfaces of revolution with a lightlike axis by using a certain ODE with real coefficients. On the other hand, for the skew curvature problem, we rewrite the equation for $S$, which is initially a nonlinear second order ODE, as a linear first order ODE with real coefficients. In all the problems, we are able to find the parameterization for the generating curves in terms of certain integrals of $H$ and $S$.

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