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HELICOIDAL MINIMAL SURFACES IN A CONFORMALLY FLAT 3-SPACE

  • Araujo, Kellcio Oliveira;Cui, Ningwei;Pina, Romildo da Silva
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.531-540
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    • 2016
  • In this work, we introduce the complete Riemannian manifold $\mathbb{F}_3$ which is a three-dimensional real vector space endowed with a conformally flat metric that is a solution of the Einstein equation. We obtain a second order nonlinear ordinary differential equation that characterizes the helicoidal minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{F}_3$. We show that the helicoid is a complete minimal surface in $\mathbb{F}_3$. Moreover we obtain a local solution of this differential equation which is a two-parameter family of functions ${\lambda}_h,K_2$ explicitly given by an integral and defined on an open interval. Consequently, we show that the helicoidal motion applied on the curve defined from ${\lambda}_h,K_2$ gives a two-parameter family of helicoidal minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{F}_3$.