Spacelike Capillary Surfaces in the Lorentz--minkowski Space
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For a compact spacelike constant mean curvature surface with nonempty boundary in the threedimensional Lorentz–Minkowski space, we introduce a rotation index of the lines of curvature at the boundary umbilical point, which was developed by Choe [‘Sufficient conditions for constant mean curvature surfaces to be round’, Math. Ann. 323(1) (2002), 143–156]. Using the concept of the rotation index at the interior and boundary umbilical points and applying the Poincaré–Hopf index formula, we prove that a compact immersed spacelike disk type capillary surface with less than four vertices in a domain of L3 bounded by (spacelike or timelike) totally umbilical surfaces is part of a (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane. Moreover, we prove that the only immersed spacelike disk type capillary surface inside a de Sitter surface in L3 is part of (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane. 2010 Mathematics subject classification: primary 53A10; secondary 53C42.
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