Indefinite centroaffine surfaces with vanishing generalized Pick function

In this paper, we study indefinite centroaffine surfaces with vanishing generalized Pick function. We give a classification of such surfaces.     

Three-dimensional locally homogeneous Lorentzian affine hyperspheres with constant sectional curvature

We determine 3-dimensional locally homogeneous Lorentzian affine hyperspheres with constant sectional curvature and with zero Pick invariant.     

Locally symmetric minimal affine Lagrangian surfaces in C2

One of the basic facts known in the theory of minimal Lagrangian surfaces is that a minimal Lagrangian surface of constant curvature in C ² must be totally geodesic. In affine geometry the constancy of curvature corresponds to the local symmetry of a connection. In Opozda (Geom. Dedic. 121:155–166, 2006), we proposed an affine version of the theory of minimal Lagrangian submanifolds. In this paper we give a local classification of locally symmetric minimal affine Lagrangian surfaces in C ². Only very few of surfaces obtained in the classification theorems are Lagrangian in the sense of metric (pseudo-Riemannian) geometry.     

Projectively flat affine surfaces

We study non-degenerate affine surfaces in A³ with a projectively flat induced connection. The curvature of the affine metric , the affine mean curvature H, and the Pick invariant J are related by . Depending on the rank of the span of the gradients of these functions, a local classification of three groups is given. The main result is the characterization of the projectively flat but not locally symmetric surfaces as a solution of a system of ODEs. In the final part, we classify projectively flat and locally symmetric affine translation surfaces.     

Minimal Surfaces in a Sphere and the Ricci Condition

In this paper we deal with minimal surfaces in a sphere which are locally isometric to a minimal surface in S3. We prove that a minimal surface in a sphere is locally isometric to a minimal surface in S3 if the curvature ellipse has constant and positive eccentricity. Moreover, we prove the following rigidity result: a compact minimal surface M in Sm, m 6, cannot be locally isometric to a minimal surface in S3 unless M already lies in S3 or M is flat and lies in S5.     

Locally symmetric minimal affine Lagrangian surfaces in C<Superscript>2</Superscript>

One of the basic facts known in the theory of minimal Lagrangian surfaces is that a minimal Lagrangian surface of constant curvature in C ² must be totally geodesic. In affine geometry the constancy of curvature corresponds to the local symmetry of a connection. In Opozda (Geom. Dedic. 121:155–166, 2006), we proposed an affine version of the theory of minimal Lagrangian submanifolds. In this paper we give a local classification of locally symmetric minimal affine Lagrangian surfaces in C ². Only very few of surfaces obtained in the classification theorems are Lagrangian in the sense of metric (pseudo-Riemannian) geometry. The research supported by the KBN grant 1 PO3A 034 26.     

Pick invariant and affine Gauss-Kronecker curvature

The elliptic paraboloid and the homogeneous affine surface given by (u, v, 1/2(u ²+v ^–2/3)),v>0, are characterized as locally strongly convex affine surfaces inA, with constant Pick invariant and vanishing affine Gauss-Kronecker curvature.Research partially supported by DGICYT Grant PB90-0014-C03-02.     

Centroaffine First Order Invariants of Surfaces in IR4

An investigation of the centroaffine geometry of surfaces in IR⁴ leads to the centroaffine first order invariants: the vector bundle valued second fundamental form, the affine semiconformal structure, the h³-semiconformal structure and the centroaffine metric. A classification of surfaces by their semiconformal structures according to signature and rank is given. This involves the study of the orbits of two pencils of symmetric bilinear forms on IR² under a change of basis. Combined with previous results ([Nomizu-Sasaki 93]) a complete classification of the zero-degenerate surfaces is obtained and examples of the other surface types are constructed.     

Hamiltonian flows on the space of star-shaped curves

We provide a geometric interpretation of the KdV equation as an evolution equation on the space of closed curves in the centroaffine plane. There is a natural symplectic structure on this space and the KdV-flow is generated by a Hamiltonian given by the total centroaffine curvature. In this way we obtain another example for a soliton equation coming naturally from a differential geometric problem [1]. Furthermore, we present a group action of the diffeomorphism group of the circle on the space of closed centroaffine curves.     

Differential invariants of surfaces

The algebra of differential invariants of a suitably generic surface S⊂R³, under either the usual Euclidean or equi-affine group actions, is shown to be generated, through invariant differentiation, by a single differential invariant. For Euclidean surfaces, the generating invariant is the mean curvature, and, as a consequence, the Gauss curvature can be expressed as an explicit rational function of the invariant derivatives, with respect to the Frenet frame, of the mean curvature. For equi-affine surfaces, the generating invariant is the third order Pick invariant. The proofs are based on the new, equivariant approach to the method of moving frames.     

Surfaces of positive curvature inE 3 whose characteristic curves form a Tchebychef net

In this paper, it is proved that the surfaces of positive curvature with no umbilical points in 3-dimensional Euclidean space whose characteristic curves form a Tchebychef net are translation surfaces and that the characteristic curves are represented on the unit sphere by a rhombic net. The determination of these surfaces depends on two elliptic integrals of the first kind. Furthermore, the case where these elliptic integrals reduce to elementary integrals is studied and it is shown that the surfaces corresponding to this case belong to one of the following two classes: (a) Translation surfaces of positive curvature with plane characteristic curves as generators lying in two planes intersecting each other under a constant angle. The special case where these planes are perpendicular gives an analogue of the Scherk's minimal surfaces of translation. (b) Translation surfaces of revolution of positive curvature with characteristic curves as generators which are circular helices.     

Ribaucour Transformations for Hypersurfaces in Space Forms

The theory of Ribaucour transformations for hypersurfaces in space forms is established. For any such hypersurface M, that admits orthonormal principal vector fields, it was shown the existence of a totally umbilic hypersurface locally associated to M by a Ribaucour transformation. A method of obtaining linear Weingarten surfaces in a three-dimensional space form is provided. By applying the theory, a new one-parameter family of complete constant mean curvature (cmc) surfaces in the unit sphere, locally associated to the flat torus, is obtained. The family contains a class of complete cmc cylinders in the sphere. In particular, one gets a family of complete minimal surfaces and minimal cylinders, locally associated to the Clifford torus.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53C20.     

Codimension of immersions with parallel pluri-mean curvature

Immersions with parallel pluri-mean curvature into euclidean n-space generalize constant mean curvature immersions of surfaces to Kähler manifolds of complex dimension m. Examples are the standard embeddings of Kähler symmetric spaces into the Lie algebra of its transvection group. We give a lower bound for the codimension of arbitrary ppmc immersions. In particular we show that M is locally symmetric if the codimension is minimal.     

The structure of singular spaces of dimension 2

In this paper, we study the structure of locally compact metric spaces of Hausdorff dimension 2. If such a space has non-positive curvautre and a local cone structure, then every simple closed curve bounds a conformal disk. On a surface (a topological manifold of dimension 2), a distance function with non-positive curvature and whose metric topology is equivalent to the surface topology gives a structure of a Riemann surface. The construction of conformal disks in these spaces uses minimal surface theory; in particular, the solution of the Plateau Problem in metric spaces of non-positive curvature. Received: 18 November 1997/ Revised versions: 15 January and 7 June 1999     

Kähler manifolds of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures

The Kähler manifolds of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures are introduced as Kähler manifolds with complex distribution of codimension two, whose holomorphic sectional curvature only depends on the corresponding point and the geometric angle, associated with the section. A curvature identity characterizing such manifolds is found. The biconformal group of transformations whose elements transform Kähler metrics into Kähler ones is introduced and biconformal tensor invariants are obtained. This makes it possible to classify the manifolds under consideration locally. The class of locally biconformal flat Kähler metrics is shown to be exactly the class of Kähler metrics whose potential function is only a function of the distance from the origin in ? ⁿ . Finally we show that any rotational even dimensional hypersurface carries locally a natural Kähler structure which is of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures.     

Laguerre geometry of surfaces with plane lines of curvature

We study surfaces with plane lines of curvature in the framework of Laguerre geometry and provide explicit representation formulae for these surfaces in terms of a potential function. As an application, we explicitly integrate allL- minimal surfaces with plane curvature lines. Partially supported by MURST 40.     

Definition of the boundary in the local Charzynski-Tammi conjecture

According to the Charzynski-Tammi conjecture, the symmetrized Pick function is extremal in the problem on the estimate for the nth Taylor coefficient in the class of holomorphic univalent functions close to the identical one. In this paper we find the exact value of M ₄ such that the symmetrized Pick function is locally extremal in the problem on the estimate for the 4th Taylor coefficient in the class of holomorphic normalized univalent functions, whose module is bounded byM ₄.     

The Center Map of an Affine Immersion

We study the center map of an equiaffine immersion which is introduced using the equiaffine support function. The center map is a constant map if and only if the hypersurface is an equiaffine sphere. We investigate those immersions for which the center map is affine congruent with the original hypersurface. In terms of centroaffine geometry, we show that such hypersurfaces provide examples of hypersurfaces with vanishing centroaffine Tchebychev operator. We also characterize them in equiaffine differential geometry using a curvature condition involving the covariant derivative of the shape operator. From both approaches, assuming the dimension is 2 and the surface is definite, a complete classification follows. Received: May 24, 2006. Revised: July 26, 2006. Accepted: July 28, 2006.     

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.     

Generalized Weierstrass representation for surfaces in Heisenberg spaces

We establish a spinorial representation for surfaces immersed with prescribed mean curvature in Heisenberg space. This permits to obtain minimal immersions starting with a harmonic Gauss map whose target is either the Poincaré disc or a hemisphere of the round sphere.