Homogeneous surfaces in Lie sphere geometry

In this paper, we study surfaces of S ³ in the context of Lie sphere geometry. We construct invariants with respect to Lie sphere transformations on the surfaces, which determine the surfaces up to a Lie sphere transformation. Finally we classify completely the homogeneous surfaces in S ³ with respect to the Lie sphere transformation group of S ³.     

Tubular surfaces of center curves on spacelike surfaces in Lorentz‐Minkowski 3‐space

In this paper, we introduce three kinds of tubular surfaces associated to original center curves γ lying in spacelike surfaces in Lorentz‐Minkowski 3‐space. It is demonstrated that these tubular surfaces can occur some singularities and the types of these singularities can be characterised by several invariants, respectively. Some interesting relations between the contacts of original curve γ with osculating model surfaces, the contacts of γ with slices, and the singularities of three kinds of surfaces are further revealed. Several examples are presented to explain the theoretical results.     

Eine Kennzeichnung der Regel- und Gesimsflächen

We study two classes of surfaces in euclidean 3-space, namelyruled andmolding surfaces, specialsurfaces of revolution (molding surfaces are covered by a plane curve if the plane is rolling over a torse, in particularsurfaces moulures by G.MONGE for a cylindrical torse). The main result: A connected surface hyperosculating molding surfaces in every point is contained in a ruled or in a molding surface; a connected surface hyperosculating in every point surfaces of revolution is a surface of revolution. We characterize hyperosculating molding surfaces by means of the generating torse and study finally molding surfaces having contact of higher order.     

On <Emphasis Type="Italic">pq</Emphasis>-hyperelliptic Klein surfaces

In this paper we study compact Klein surfaces of algebraic genus d > 1 admitting p- and q-hyperelliptic involutions by which we mean involutions with the orbit spaces having algebraic genera p and q. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for p, q and d to exist such surfaces. It turns out that these conditions are also sufficient for the existence of such surfaces with commuting involutions what allow us to study this class also. We study the spectrum of hyperellipticity degrees of the product of these involutions and topological type of these surfaces. G. Gromadzki was supported by the grant SAB 2005-0049 of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Sciences. E. Tyszkowska was supported by BW 5100-5-0198-6.     

Integral Menger curvature for surfaces

We develop the concept of integral Menger curvature for a large class of nonsmooth surfaces. We prove uniform Ahlfors regularity and a C1,λ-a priori bound for surfaces for which this functional is finite. In fact, it turns out that there is an explicit length scale R>0 which depends only on an upper bound E for the integral Menger curvature Mp(Σ) and the integrability exponent p, and not on the surface Σ itself; below that scale, each surface with energy smaller than E looks like a nearly flat disc with the amount of bending controlled by the (local) Mp-energy. Moreover, integral Menger curvature can be defined a priori for surfaces with self-intersections or branch points; we prove that a posteriori all such singularities are excluded for surfaces with finite integral Menger curvature. By means of slicing and iterative arguments we bootstrap the Hölder exponent λ up to the optimal one, λ=1−(8/p), thus establishing a new geometric ‘Morrey–Sobolev’ imbedding theorem.As two of the various possible variational applications we prove the existence of surfaces in given isotopy classes minimizing integral Menger curvature with a uniform bound on area, and of area minimizing surfaces subjected to a uniform bound on integral Menger curvature.     

Minimal Surfaces in the Heisenberg Group

We investigate the minimal surface problem in the three dimensional Heisenberg group, H, equipped with its standard Carnot–Carathéodory metric. Using a particular surface measure, we characterize minimal surfaces in terms of a sub-elliptic partial differential equation and prove an existence result for the Plateau problem in this setting. Further, we provide a link between our minimal surfaces and Riemannian constant mean curvature surfaces in H equipped with different Riemannian metrics approximating the Carnot–Carathéodory metric. We generate a large library of examples of minimal surfaces and use these to show that the solution to the Dirichlet problem need not be unique. Moreover, we show that the minimal surfaces we construct are in fact X-minimal surfaces in the sense of Garofalo and Nhieu.     

The Minding formula and its applications

We apply the Minding Formula for geodesic curvature and the Gauss-Bonnet Formula to calculate the total Gaussian curvature of certain 2-dimensional open complete branched Riemannian manifolds, the M\cal M surfaces. We prove that for an M\cal M surface, the total curvature depends only on its Euler characteristic and the local behaviour of its metric at ends and branch points. Then we check that many important surfaces, such as complete minimal surfaces in \Bbb Rⁿ{\Bbb R}^n with finite total curvature, complete constant mean curvature surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space H³ (–1) with finite total curvature, are actually branch point free M\cal M surfaces. Therefore as corollaries we give simple proofs of some classical theorems such as the Chern-Osserman theorem for complete minimal surfaces in \Bbb Rⁿ{\Bbb R}^n with finite total curvature. For the reader's convenience, we also derive the Minding Formula.     

ABELIAN COVERS AND ISOTRIVIAL CANONICAL FIBRATIONS

We give a pure algebraic method to construct all the infinite families of surfaces S with isotrivial canonical fibration where S is the minimal desingularization of X = Z/G and G is an Abelian group acting diagonally on the product of two smooth curves: Z = F × D. In particular we recover all the known infinite families of surfaces with isotrivial canonical fibration and we produce many new ones. Our method works in every dimension and, with minor modifications, it can be applied to construct surfaces with canonical map of degree > 1.     

q-Trigonal Klein surfaces

In this paperq-trigonal Klein surfaces are introduced in a similar way to that ofq-hyperelliptic surfaces. They are characterized by means of non-Euclidean crystallographic groups (NEC groups in short). As a consequence of this characterization, given a family of Klein surfaces (orientable or not) with topological genusg andk boundary components the admissible values forq are calculated. In particular, the families for which there is no admissibleq or families with uniqueq are obtained. The authors are partially supported by DGICYT PB98 0017.     

On q-n-gonal Klein Surfaces

We consider proper Klein surfaces X of algebraic genus p ≥ 2, having an automorphism φ of prime order n with quotient space X/（φ） of algebraic genus q. These Klein surfaces axe called q-n-gonal surfaces and they are n-sheeted covers of surfaces of algebraic genus q. In this paper we extend the results of the already studied cases n ≤ 3 to this more general situation. Given p ≥ 2, we obtain, for each prime n, the （admissible） values q for which there exists a q-n-gonal surface of algebraic genus p. Furthermore, for each p and for each admissible q, it is possible to check all topological types of q-n-gonal surfaces with algebraic genus p. Several examples are given： q-pentagonal surfaces and q-n-gonal bordered surfaces with topological genus g = 0, 1.     

Pants Decompositions of Random Surfaces

Our goal is to show, in two different contexts, that “random” surfaces have large pants decompositions. First we show that there are hyperbolic surfaces of genus g for which any pants decomposition requires curves of total length at least g ^7/6−ε . Moreover, we prove that this bound holds for most metrics in the moduli space of hyperbolic metrics equipped with the Weil–Petersson volume form. We then consider surfaces obtained by randomly gluing euclidean triangles (with unit side length) together and show that these surfaces have the same property.     

Rational surfaces over perfect fields

Résumé Letk be a perfect field of arbitrary characteristic. The main object of this paper is to establish some new objects associated with algebraic surfaces F defined overk which are invariants for birational transformations defined overk. There are two main applications. The first is that if K is any extension ofk of degree 2, then there are infinitely many birationally inequivalent rational surfaces defined overk which all become birationally equivalent to the plane over K. The second application is to a partial classification of the del Pezzo surfaces for birational equivalence overk. For our purposes a del Pezzo surface defined overk is a nonsingular rational surface with a very ample anticanonical system, so the nonsingular cubic surfaces are a special care. As we use the language of schemes, we have to prove some classical results in the new framework, notably some results of Enriques [7] on the classification of rational surfaces. In the last section we produce evidence for the conjecture that if the fieldk is quasialgebraically closed (in the sense of Lang [11]), then a rational surface defined overk always has a point on it defined overk. We shall now describe the contents of our paper in more detail.      

Minimal surfaces,Hopf differentials and the Ricci condition

We deal with minimal surfaces in a sphere and investigate certain invariants of geometric significance, the Hopf differentials, which are defined in terms of the complex structure and the higher fundamental forms. We discuss the holomorphicity of Hopf differentials and provide a geometric interpretation for it in terms of the higher curvature ellipses. This motivates the study of a class of minimal surfaces, which we call exceptional. We show that exceptional minimal surfaces are related to Lawson’s conjecture regarding the Ricci condition. Indeed, we prove that, under certain conditions, compact minimal surfaces in spheres which satisfy the Ricci condition are exceptional. Thus, under these conditions, the proof of Lawson’s conjecture is reduced to its confirmation for exceptional minimal surfaces. In fact, we provide an affirmative answer to Lawson’s conjecture for exceptional minimal surfaces in odd dimensional spheres or in S ^4m .     

Algebraic surfaces of general type withK 2=2p g−1,p g≥5

This paper mainly deals with minimal algebraic surfaces of general type withK ²=2p _g–1. We prove that forp _g7 all these surfaces are birational to a double cover of some rational surfaces, and all but a finite classes of them have a unique fibration of genus 2; then we study their structures by determining their branch loci and singular fibres. We study similarly for surfaces withp _g=5, 6. Lastly we show that whenp _g13 all these surfaces are simply-connected.     

K-Theory of Surfaces at the Prime 2

We prove that for smooth surfaces over real closed fields, and a class of smooth projective surfaces over a real number field, the map between mod 2 algebraic and étale K-theory is an isomorphism in sufficiently large degrees. For a class of smooth projective surfaces over a real closed field, including rational surfaces, complete intersections and K3-surfaces over the real numbers, we explicate the abutment of the mod 2 motivic cohomology to algebraic K-theory spectral sequence.     

Minding-Isometrien bei (k+1)-Regelflächen

In this paper we investigate (k+1)-dimensional generalized ruled surfaces generated by a oneparameter family ofk-dimensional linear subspaces of then-dimensional Euclidean spaceE. Minding-isometries of ruled surfaces are special isometries, which let the generating space invariant. Some new results will be given, concerned with Mindingisometries of generalized ruled surfaces of arbitrary codimension. In this investigations quadratic hypersurfaces in the normal spaces are of great importance.     

Extending immersions of curves to properly immersed surfaces

Proper generic immersions of compact one-dimensional manifolds in surfaces are studied. Suppose an immersion γ of a collection of circles is given with an even number of double points in a closed surface G. Then γ extends to various proper immersions of surfaces in three-manifolds that are bounded by G. Some of these extensions do not have triple points. The minimum of the genera of the triple point free surfaces is an invariant of the curve. An algorithm to compute this invariant is given.Necessary and suffecient conditions determine if a given collection δ of immersed arcs in a surface F maps to the double points set of a proper immersion. In case the conditions are satisfied, an immersion of F into a three-manifold that depends on δ is constructed explicitly. In the process, the possible triple points of immersed surfaces in three-manifolds are categorized.The techniques are applied to find examples of curves in surfaces that do not bound immersed disks in any three-manifold.     

On the classification of elliptic surfaces withq=1

We classify, up to isomorphism, elliptic surfaces with irregularity one having exactly one singular fiber (necessarily of typeI ₆ ^* ). All of them turn out to be elliptic modular surfaces (Shioda [11]), so that the problem is indirectly equivalent to classifying certain subgroups ofSL ₂(Z). These surfaces are then used to produce examples of (elliptic) surfaces withq=1, anyp _g 1, which have maximal Picard number (see Persson [7] for the caseq=0). Finally, the classification yields some interesting relationships between hypergeometric functions, theta functions, and certain automorphic forms.Supported in part by NSF DMS-8501724     

Complete classification of parallel Lorentz surfaces in neutral pseudo hyperbolic 4-space

A Lorentz surface of an indefinite space form is called a parallel surface if its second fundamental form is parallel with respect to the Van der Waerden-Bortolotti connection. Such surfaces are locally invariant under the reflection with respect to the normal space at each point. Parallel surfaces are important in geometry as well as in general relativity since extrinsic invariants of such surfaces do not change from point to point. Recently, parallel Lorentz surfaces in 4D neutral pseudo Euclidean 4-space $ \mathbb{E}_2^4 $ \mathbb{E}_2^4 and in neutral pseudo 4-sphere S ₂⁴ (1) were classified in [14] and in [10], respectively. In this paper, we completely classify parallel Lorentz surfaces in neutral pseudo hyperbolic 4-space H ₂⁴ (−1). Our main result states that there are 53 families of parallel Lorentz surfaces in H ₂⁴ (−1). Conversely, every parallel Lorentz surface in H ₂⁴ (−1) is obtained from the 53 families. As an immediate by-product, we achieve the complete classification of all parallel Lorentz surfaces in 4D neutral indefinite space forms.