Analysis of Timelike Thomsen Surfaces
Analysis of Timelike Thomsen Surfaces
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10.1007/s12220-019-00166-7
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2018-08
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S. Akamine;Joseph Cho;Yuta Ogata
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S. Akamine;Joseph Cho;Yuta Ogata
Timelike Thomsen surfaces are timelike minimal surfaces that are also affine minimal. In this paper, we make use of both the Lorentz conformal coordinates and the null coordinates, and their respective representation theorems of timelike minimal surfaces, to obtain a complete global classification of these surfaces and to characterize them using a geometric invariant called lightlike curvatures. As a result, we reveal the relationship between timelike Thomsen surfaces, and timelike minimal surfaces with planar curvature lines. As an application, we give a deformation of null curves preserving the pseudo-arclength parametrization and the constancy of the lightlike curvatures.