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

DOI10.2748/TMJ.20190729zbMATH Open1486.53073arXiv1804.00259OpenAlexW3200189262MaRDI QIDQ2075397FDOQ2075397

Authors: Luiz C. B. da Silva 

Publication date: 14 February 2022

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

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 $S$.

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

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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)

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