Spacelike Surfaces in L4 with null mean curvature vector and the nonlinear Riccati partial differential equation. (June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dussan, M.P.; Filho, A.P. Franco; Simões, P.
• Is Part Of: Nonlinear analysis. Volume 207(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-06
• Subjects: 53C50 -- 53C42 -- 30D60 -- 34A26; Spacelike surface -- Light cone -- Lorentz–Minkowski space -- Riccati's equation; Mathematical analysis -- Periodicals; Functional analysis -- Periodicals; Nonlinear theories -- Periodicals; Analyse mathématique -- Périodiques; Analyse fonctionnelle -- Périodiques; Théories non linéaires -- Périodiques; Functional analysis; Mathematical analysis; Nonlinear theories; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 515.7248
• DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2021.112271
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-546X

Abstract

Abstract: This paper introduces a complex Weierstrass representation for weakly conformal spacelike immersions in the Lorentz–Minkowski space L 4 involving holomorphic or anti-holomorphic functions. Factoring through the light cone, we parametrize these immersions by three complex functions ( μ, a, b ) . We prove the existence of a correspondence between those immersions for which a is holomorphic and b satisfies a Riccati partial differential equation, with conformal immersions in the hyperbolic space H 3 with lightlike mean curvature vector. As a principal application of this correspondence, we obtain a powerful tool to construct new, explicit solutions of nonlinear Riccati partial differential equation and their explicit, associated surfaces. We also use our complex representation to classify the totally umbilic, weakly conformal immersions in L 4, when a and b are both anti-holomorphic functions.