Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms
Abstract
Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms, a topic in Lorentzian conformal geometry which parallels the theory of Willmore surfaces in $S^4$, are studied in this paper. We define two kinds of transforms for such a surface, which produce the so-called left/right polar surfaces and the adjoint surfaces. These new surfaces are again conformal Willmore surfaces. For them holds interesting duality theorem. As an application spacelike Willmore 2-spheres are classified. Finally we construct a family of homogeneous spacelike Willmore tori.
- Publication:
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Science in China A: Mathematics
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s11425-008-0052-9
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0709.1837
- Bibcode:
- 2008ScChA..51.1561M
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- 53C42 (53B30;
- 53C40)
- E-Print:
- 19 pages