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J. Korean Math. Soc. 2004; 41(2): 379-396

Printed March 1, 2004

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Classifications of rotation surfaces in pseudo-Euclidean space

Young Ho Kim and Dae Won Yoon

Kyungpook National University, Gyeongsang National University

Abstract

In this article, we study rotation surfaces in the 4-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space $\Bbb E^4_2$. Also, we obtain the complete classification theorems for the flat rotation surfaces with finite type Gauss map, pointwise 1-type Gauss map and an equation in terms of the mean curvature vector. In fact, we characterize the flat rotation surfaces of finite type immersion with the Gauss map and the mean curvature vector field, namely the Gauss map of finite type, pointwise 1-type Gauss map and some algebraic equations in terms of the Gauss map and the mean curvature vector field related to the Laplacian of the surfaces with respect to the induced metric.

Keywords: rotation surfaces, Gauss map, finite type, Pseudo-Eucli-dean space

MSC numbers: 53B25, 53C50