A Neutral Kaehler Metric on Space of Time-like Lines in Lorentzian 3-space

Authors Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg

Publication date 31 August 2006

Differential line geometry (53A25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

Abstract: We study the neutral K"ahler metric on the space of time-like lines in Lorentzian

{B b b E}_{1}^{3}

, which we identify with the total space of the tangent bundle to the hyperbolic plane. We find all of the infinitesimal isometries of this metric, as well as the geodesics, and interpret them in terms of the Lorentzian metric on

{B b b E}_{1}^{3}

. In addition, we give a new characterisation of Weingarten surfaces in Euclidean

{B b b E}^{3}

and Lorentzian

{B b b E}_{1}^{3}

as the vanishing of the scalar curvature of the associated normal congruence in the space of oriented lines. Finally, we relate our construction to the classical Weierstrass representation of minimal and maximal surfaces in

{B b b E}^{3}

and

{B b b E}_{1}^{3}

.

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