Born-Infeld particles and Dirichlet p-branes

GW Gibbons - Nuclear Physics B, 1998 - Elsevier
Born-Infeld theory admits finite energy point particle solutions with δ-function sources, Blons.
I discuss their role in the theory of Dirichlet p-branes as the ends of strings intersecting the …

[HTML][HTML] Calabi–Bernstein results for maximal surfaces in Lorentzian product spaces

AL Albujer, LJ Alías - Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper we establish new Calabi–Bernstein results for maximal surfaces immersed into
a Lorentzian product space of the form M2× R1, where M2 is a connected Riemannian …

Björling problem for maximal surfaces in Lorentz–Minkowski space

LJ Alías, RMB Chaves, P Mira - Mathematical Proceedings of the …, 2003 - cambridge.org
We introduce a new approach to the local study of maximal surfaces in Lorentz–Minkowski
space, based on a complex representation formula for this kind of surfaces. As an …

Curvature properties of zero mean curvature surfaces in four-dimensional Lorentzian space forms

LJ Alías, B Palmer - Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge …, 1998 - cambridge.org
We study the global behaviour of Gaussian curvature K and normal curvature K⊥ of zero
mean curvature spacelike surfaces (stationary surfaces) in a four-dimensional Lorentzian …

On the Gaussian curvature of maximal surfaces and the Calabi–Bernstein theorem

LJ Alías, B Palmer - Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 2001 - cambridge.org
In this paper, a new approach to the Calabi–Bernstein theorem on maximal surfaces in the
Lorentz–Minkowski space L3 is introduced. The approach is based on an upper bound for …

On complete space-like stationary surfaces in 4-dimensional Minkowski space with graphical Gauss image

L Ou, C Cheng, L Yang - Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2024 - Springer
Concerning the value distribution problem for generalized Gauss maps, we not only
generalize Fujimoto's theorem (J Math Soc Jpn 40: 235–247, 1988) to complete space-like …

Uniqueness and stability of traveling waves to the time-like extremal hypersurface in Minkowski space

J Liu, Y Zhou - arxiv preprint arxiv:1903.04129, 2019 - arxiv.org
There is a few results about the global stability of nontrivial solutions to quasilinear wave
equations. In this paper we are concerned with the uniqueness and stability of traveling …

On the maximal number of exceptional values of Gauss maps for various classes of surfaces

Y Kawakami - Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2013 - Springer
The main goal of this paper is to reveal the geometric meaning of the maximal number of
exceptional values of Gauss maps for several classes of immersed surfaces in space forms …

[HTML][HTML] Björling problem for spacelike, zero mean curvature surfaces in L4

AC Asperti, JAM Vilhena - Journal of Geometry and physics, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we extend and solve the Björling-type problem for spacelike, zero mean
curvature surfaces in the Lorentz–Minkowski four-dimensional space L4. As an application …

[HTML][HTML] Global geometry and topology of spacelike stationary surfaces in the 4-dimensional Lorentz space

X Ma, C Wang, P Wang - Advances in Mathematics, 2013 - Elsevier
For spacelike stationary (ie zero mean curvature) surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentz space,
one can naturally introduce two Gauss maps and a Weierstrass-type representation. In this …