The family of cones is one of typical models of non-cylindrical ruled surfaces. Among them, the circular cones are unique in the sense that their Gauss map satisfies a partial differential equation similar, though not identical, to one characterizing the so-called 1-type submanifolds. Specifically, for the Gauss map G of a circular cone, one has ∆G = f (G + C), where ∆ is the Laplacian operator, f is a non-zero function and C is a constant vector. We prove that circular cones are characterized by being the only non-cylindrical ruled surfaces with ∆G = f (G + C) for a nonzero constant vector C.
Abstract. The helicoidal surface is a generalization of rotation surface in a Minkowski space. We study helicoidal surfaces in a Minkowski 3-space in terms of their Gauss map and provide some examples of new classes of helicoidal surfaces with constant mean curvature in a Minkowski 3-space.
Abstract. We classify and characterize the rational helicoidal surfaces in a three-dimensional Minkowski space satisfying pointwise 1-type like problem on the Gauss map.
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