On Lifting Fibrations of Genus One

We investigate the problem of lifting fibrations of genus one on algebraic surfaces of Kodaira dimension zero. We prove that fibrations on the following surfaces lift: Enriques surfaces, K3 surfaces covering Enriques surfaces, certain hyperelliptic, and quasi-hyperelliptic surfaces.     

On the Parameterization of Rational Ringed Surfaces and Rational Canal Surfaces

Ringed surfaces and canal surfaces are surfaces that contain a one-parameter family of circles. Ringed surfaces can be described by a radius function, a directrix curve and vector field along the directrix curve, which specifies the normals of the planes that contain the circles. In particular, the class of ringed surfaces includes canal surfaces, which can be obtained as the envelopes of a one-parameter family of spheres. Consequently, canal surfaces can be described by a spine curve and a radius function. We present parameterization algorithms for rational ringed surfaces and rational canal surfaces. It is shown that these algorithms may generate any rational parameterization of a ringed (or canal) surface with the property that one family of parameter lines consists of circles. These algorithms are used to obtain rational parameterizations for Darboux cyclides and to construct blends between pairs of canal surfaces and pairs of ringed surfaces.     

Affine diffeomorphisms of translation surfaces: Periodic points, Fuchsian groups, and arithmeticity

We study translation surfaces with rich groups of affine diffeomorphisms—“prelattice” surfaces. These include the lattice translation surfaces studied by W. Veech. We show that there exist prelattice but nonlattice translation surfaces. We characterize arithmetic surfaces among prelattice surfaces by the infinite cardinality of their set of points periodic under affine diffeomorphisms. We give examples of translation surfaces whose periodic points and Weierstrass points coincide.     

Some special surfaces in the pseudo-Galilean space

We describe some special surfaces in pseudo-Galilean spaces such as helical surfaces, ruled screw surfaces, surfaces of revolution and in particular tori of revolution. We define special surfaces and find their main properties.      

Surfaces with zero mean curvature vector in neutral 4-manifolds

Space-like surfaces and time-like surfaces with zero mean curvature vector in oriented neutral 4-manifolds are isotropic and compatible with the orientations of the spaces if and only if their lifts to the space-like and the time-like twistor spaces respectively are horizontal. In neutral Kähler surfaces and paraKähler surfaces, complex curves and paracomplex curves respectively are such surfaces and characterized by one additional condition. In neutral 4-dimensional space forms, the holomorphic quartic differentials defined on such surfaces vanish. There exist time-like surfaces with zero mean curvature vector and zero holomorphic quartic differential which are not compatible with the orientations of the spaces and the conformal Gauss maps of time-like surfaces of Willmore type and their analogues give such surfaces.     

Laguerre minimal surfaces,isotropic geometry and linear elasticity

Laguerre minimal (L-minimal) surfaces are the minimizers of the energy \(\int (H^2-K)/K d\!A\). They are a Laguerre geometric counterpart of Willmore surfaces, the minimizers of \(\int (H^2-K)d\!A\), which are known to be an entity of Möbius sphere geometry. The present paper provides a new and simple approach to L-minimal surfaces by showing that they appear as graphs of biharmonic functions in the isotropic model of Laguerre geometry. Therefore, L-minimal surfaces are equivalent to Airy stress surfaces of linear elasticity. In particular, there is a close relation between L-minimal surfaces of the spherical type, isotropic minimal surfaces (graphs of harmonic functions), and Euclidean minimal surfaces. This relation exhibits connections to geometrical optics. In this paper we also address and illustrate the computation of L-minimal surfaces via thin plate splines and numerical solutions of biharmonic equations. Finally, metric duality in isotropic space is used to derive an isotropic counterpart to L-minimal surfaces and certain Lie transforms of L-minimal surfaces in Euclidean space. The latter surfaces possess an optical interpretation as anticaustics of graph surfaces of biharmonic functions.     

Exotic Minimal Surfaces

We prove a general fusion theorem for complete orientable minimal surfaces in ?³ with finite total curvature. As a consequence, complete orientable minimal surfaces of weak finite total curvature with exotic geometry are produced. More specifically, universal surfaces (i.e., surfaces from which all minimal surfaces can be recovered) and space-filling surfaces with arbitrary genus and no symmetries.     

Hyperbolic surfaces in the Grassmannian

In this article we study real 2-dimensional surfaces in the Grassmannian of 2-planes in a 4-dimensional vector space. These surfaces occur naturally as the fibers of jet bundles of partial differential equations.On the Grassmannian there is an invariant conformal quadratic form and we will use the structure induced by this quadratic form to study the surfaces. We give a topological classification of compact hyperbolic surfaces similar to the classification by Gluck and Warner [Duke Math. J. 50 (1) (1983)] of compact elliptic surfaces. In contrast with elliptic surfaces there are several topological possibilities for hyperbolic surfaces. We make a calculation of the differential invariants under the action of the group of conformal isometries. Finally, we analyze a class of surfaces called geometrically flat and show that within this class there exist many examples of non-trivial compact surfaces.     

Polynomial Models of Degree 5 and Algebras of Their Automorphisms

In classifying and studying holomorphic automorphisms of surfaces, it is often convenient to pass to tangent model surfaces. This method is well developed for surfaces of type (n,K), where K≤ ² ; for such surfaces, tangent quadrics (i.e., surfaces determined by equations of degree 2) with a number of useful properties have been constructed. In recent years, for surfaces of higher codimensions, tangent model surfaces of degrees 3 and 4 with similar properties were constructed. However, this construction imposes new constraints on the codimension. In this paper, the same method is applied to surfaces of even higher codimension. Model surfaces of the fifth degree are constructed. It is shown that all the basic useful properties of model surfaces are preserved, in spite of a number of technical difficulties.     

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.     

类拟的Euler公式

经典的欧拉公式描述了两曲面交线的曲率和曲面的法曲率以及曲面夹角之间的关系。本文给出了R3中曲面的法曲率的欧拉公式的简单证明。并得到一个关于曲面交线曲率及曲面测地曲率的类似的欧拉公式。     

Minimal graphs in over convex domains

Krust established that all conjugate and associate surfaces of a minimal graph over a convex domain are also graphs. Using a convolution theorem from the theory of harmonic univalent mappings, we generalize Krust's theorem to include the family of convolution surfaces which are generated by taking the Hadamard product or convolution of mappings. Since this convolution involves convex univalent analytic mappings, this family of convolution surfaces is much larger than just the family of associated surfaces. Also, this generalization guarantees that all the resulting surfaces are over close-to-convex domains. In particular, all the associate surfaces and certain Goursat transformation surfaces of a minimal graph over a convex domain are over close-to-convex domains.

     

Translationsflächen in der äquiaffinen Differentialgeometrie

We discuss with equiaffine methods the surfaces of translation with plane generating curves in the three-dimensional affine space. Using (pseudo-) isothermic parameters we determine in this class all the affine minimal surfaces (which include the affine spheres, the quadrics and the ruled surfaces), all the surfaces with vanishing affine Gauss curvature (which include the surfaces with constant non vanishing affine mean curvature), and all the surfaces with only one family of affine lines of curvature.     

Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms

Spacelike Willmore surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentzian space forms, a topic in Lorentzian conformal geometry which parallels the theory of Willmore surfaces in S4, 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 the interesting duality theorem holds. As an application spacelike Willmore 2-spheres are classified. Finally we construct a family of homogeneous spacelike Willmore tori.     

Ruled Weingarten surfaces in the Galilean space

In this paper we study ruled Weingarten surfaces in the Galilean space. Weingarten surfaces are surfaces having a nontrivial funcional relation between their Gaussian and mean curvature. We describe some further examples of Weingarten surfaces.      

Monodromy groups of real Enriques surfaces

We compute the monodromy groups of real Enriques surfaces of hyperbolic type. The principal tools are the deformation classification of such surfaces and a modified version of Donaldson?s trick, relating real Enriques surfaces and real rational surfaces.     

Generalized surfaces with constant <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis>/<Emphasis Type="Italic">K</Emphasis> in Euclidean three-space

Surfaces in Euclidean three-space with constant ratio of mean curvature to Gauss curvature arise naturally as the parallel surfaces to minimal surfaces. They might possess singularities which occur naturally as focal points of minimal surfaces. We study geometric properties and the singularities of such surfaces, prove some global results about them, and provide a Björling formula to construct such surfaces with prescribed point or curve singularities.     

Cox rings of K3 surfaces with Picard number 2

We study presentations of Cox rings of K3 surfaces of Picard number 2. In particular we consider the Cox rings of classical examples of K3 surfaces, such as quartic surfaces containing a line and doubly elliptic K3 surfaces.     

REAL BELYI THEORY

We develop a Belyi-type theory that applies to Klein surfaces,that is, (possibly non-orientable) surfaces with boundary whichcarry a dianalytic structure. In particular, we extend Belyi'sfamous theorem from Riemann surfaces to Klein surfaces.     

Hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces with regular faces

We study hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces with faces isometric to regular hyperbolic polygons satisfying that the total angles at vertices are at least 2π. The combinatorial information of these surfaces is shown to be identified with that of Euclidean polyhedral surfaces with negative combinatorial curvature everywhere. We prove that there is a gap between areas of non-smooth hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces and the area of smooth hyperbolic surfaces. The numerical result for the gap is obtained for hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces, homeomorphic to the double torus, whose 1-skeletons are cubic graphs.