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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/BKMS.2013.50.4.1329

SOME TRANSLATION SURFACES IN THE 3-DIMENSIONAL HEISENBERG GROUP

Yoon, Dae Won (Department of Mathematics Education and RINS Gyeongsang National University)
Lee, Chul Woo (Department of Mathematics Education Gyeongsang National University)
Karacan, Murat Kemal (Department of Mathematics Faculty of Sciences and Arts Usak University)

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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.50, no.4, 2013 , pp. 1329-1343 More about this Journal

Abstract

In this paper, we define translation surfaces in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group $\mathcal{H}_3$ obtained as a product of two planar curves lying in planes, which are not orthogonal, and study minimal translation surfaces in $\mathcal{H}_3$ .

Keywords

translation surface; Heisenberg group; minimal surface;

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