%0 Journal Article
%T Surfaces of Constant Curvature in the Pseudo-Galilean Space
%A £żeljka Milin £żipu£ż
%A Bla£żenka Divjak
%J International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/375264
%X We develop the local theory of surfaces immersed in the pseudo-Galilean space, a special type of Cayley-Klein spaces. We define principal, Gaussian, and mean curvatures. By this, the general setting for study of surfaces of constant curvature in the pseudo-Galilean space is provided. We describe surfaces of revolution of constant curvature. We introduce special local coordinates for surfaces of constant curvature, so-called the Tchebyshev coordinates, and show that the angle between parametric curves satisfies the Klein-Gordon partial differential equation. We determine the Tchebyshev coordinates for surfaces of revolution and construct a surface with constant curvature from a particular solution of the Klein-Gordon equation. 1. Introduction Study of differential geometry of curves and surfaces in Euclidean, as well as in other non-Euclidean ambient spaces, has a long history. Classical context of the Euclidean space is a source of results which could be transferred to some other geometries. One way of defining new geometries is through Cayley-Klein spaces. They are defined as projective spaces with an absolute figure, a subset of consisting of a sequence of quadrics and planes [1]. Projectivities of the projective space which leave invariant the absolute figure define the subgroup of projectivities called the group of motions of a Cayley-Klein space. By means of the absolute figure, metric relations are also defined and they are invariant under the group of motions. In three-dimensional projective space various types of Cayley-Klein spaces can be defined, such as elliptic and hyperbolic space, Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean (Minkowski) space, simple and double isotropic space, Galilean and pseudo-Galilean space, and quasielliptic and quasihyperbolic space. General theory of differential geometry of curves and surfaces in Cayley-Klein spaces can be found in [1]. Foundations of these areas in the pseudo-Galilean space were established in [2], as well as in the papers [3¨C7]. Geometry of the Galilean space was studied in [8¨C11]. The four-dimensional Galilean space appears in connection with classical Newtonian mechanics, where first coordinate describes time and other three coordinates are space coordinates. The main interest of this paper is to develop the local theory of surfaces in the pseudo-Galilean space and to study surfaces of constant curvatures. As in the Minkowski space [12], two classes of surfaces are introduced, spacelike and timelike surfaces, and for them the Gaussian curvature is defined. The obtained results are compared to the well-known
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