Singularities of generalized timelike minimal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space

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Main Author: Akamine, Shintaro
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contents A timelike minimal surface in Minkowski 3-space is a surface whose induced metric is Lorentzian and with vanishing mean curvature. Such surfaces have many kinds of singularities. In this paper, we prove existence and non-existence theorems of singularities of timelike minimal surfaces, and show that various diffeomorphism types of singularities that do not appear on these Riemannian counter parts, such as minimal surfaces in Euclidean space and maximal surfaces in Minkowski space, appear on timelike minimal surfaces. We also give criteria for cuspidal butterfly, cuspidal $S_1$ singularity, $(2,5)$-cuspidal edge, cuspidal beaks and $D_4$ singularity of timelike minimal surfaces. Finally, duality and invariance theorems for these singularities and examples are given.
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spellingShingle Singularities of generalized timelike minimal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space
Akamine, Shintaro
Differential Geometry
Primary 53A10, Secondary 53B30, 57R45
A timelike minimal surface in Minkowski 3-space is a surface whose induced metric is Lorentzian and with vanishing mean curvature. Such surfaces have many kinds of singularities. In this paper, we prove existence and non-existence theorems of singularities of timelike minimal surfaces, and show that various diffeomorphism types of singularities that do not appear on these Riemannian counter parts, such as minimal surfaces in Euclidean space and maximal surfaces in Minkowski space, appear on timelike minimal surfaces. We also give criteria for cuspidal butterfly, cuspidal $S_1$ singularity, $(2,5)$-cuspidal edge, cuspidal beaks and $D_4$ singularity of timelike minimal surfaces. Finally, duality and invariance theorems for these singularities and examples are given.
title Singularities of generalized timelike minimal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space
topic Differential Geometry
Primary 53A10, Secondary 53B30, 57R45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00313