A Classification of Strict Walker 3-Manifold

Year 2021, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 148 - 153, 28.04.2021

Athoumane Nıang Ameth Ndiaye , Abdoul Salam Diallo

https://izlik.org/JA29XT98SF

Abstract

In this paper we give two special families of ruled surfaces in a three dimensional strict Walker manifold. The local degeneracy (resp. non-degeneracy) of one of this family has a strong consequence on the geometry of the ambiant Walker manifold.

Keywords

Minimal surfaces , Lorentz Manifold , Ruled surfaces

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