Swallowtails and cone-like singularities on a maxface

DOI10.1007/S12044-022-00674-7MaRDI QIDQ2672052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anu Dhochak, Pradip Kumar

Publication date 8 June 2022

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10353

zbMATH Keywords

cone-likemaxface singularitiesswallowtails

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: When a connected component of the set of singular points of the maxface $X$ consists of only generalized cone-like singular points, we construct a sequence of maxfaces $X_n$, with an increasing number of swallowtails, converging to the maxface $X$. We include the general discussion toward this.

Review text

Maximal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space are space-like immersions that maximize area locally. Like the minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), they are zero mean curvature surfaces. \textit{F. J. M. Estudillo} and \textit{A. Romero} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 111, No. 3, 515--524 (1992; Zbl 0824.53061)] the maximal surfaces with singularities, named by them generalized maximal immersions. Singularities of generalized maximal immersions are of two types, branched and non-branched, the latter being those where the bounding tangent plane contains a light-like vector. The maxface, introduced by \textit{M. Umehara} and \textit{K. Yamada} [Hokkaido Math. J. 35, No. 1, 13--40 (2006; Zbl 1109.53016)], is a non-branched generalized maximal immersion, whose singularities are frontals. When a connected component of the set of singular points of the maxface \(X\) consists of generalized cone-like singular points, the authors construct a sequence of maxfaces \(X_n,\) with an increasing number of swallowtails, converging to the maxface \(X\). They give an example of a sequence of maxfaces having an increasing number of swallowtails converging to the Lorentzian Catenoid.

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