We prove that the Gauss map of a surface of constant mean curvature embedded in Minkowski space is harmonic. This fact will then be used to study 2+1 gravity for surfaces of genus higher than one. By considering the energy of the Gauss map, a canonical transform between the ADM reduced variables and holonomy variables can be constructed. This allows one to solve (in principle) for the evolution...

Carrying further work of T.A. Crawford, we show that each component of the space of harmonic maps from the 2-sphere to complex projective 2-space of degree d and energy 4πE is a smooth closed submanifold of the space of all C j maps (j ≥ 2). We achieve this by showing that the Gauss transform which relates them to spaces of holomorphic maps of given degree and ramification index is smooth and h...

In this paper we introduce Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions given by generalized Borel and Laplace transforms which are left invariant by the transfer operators of the Farey map and its induced transformation, the Gauss map, respectively. By means of a suitable operator-valued power series we are able to study simultaneously the spectrum of both these operators along with the analytic pr...

To definite and compute differential invariants, like curvatures, for triangular meshes (or polyhedral surfaces) is a key problem in CAGD and the computer vision. The Gaussian curvature and the mean curvature are determined by the differential of the Gauss map of the underlying surface. The Gauss map assigns to each point in the surface the unit normal vector of the tangent plane to the surface...

We deal with the minimal Lagrangian surfaces of the EinsteinKähler surface S × S, studying local geometric properties and showing that they can be locally described as Gauss maps of minimal surfaces in S ⊂ R. We also discuss the second variation of the area and characterize the most relevant examples by their stability behaviour.