A Classification of Strict Walker 3-Manifold

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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