On Bäcklund and Ribaucour transformations for hyperbolic linear Weingarten surfaces

We consider Bäcklund transformations for hyperbolic linear Weingarten surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. The composition of these transformations is obtained in the Permutability Theorem that generates a 4-parameter family of surfaces of the same type. Since a Ribaucour transformation of a hyperbolic l...

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Main Author: Claudiano Goulart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática 2018-02-01
Series:Boletim da Sociedade Paranaense de Matemática
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Online Access:https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/BSocParanMat/article/view/36702
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Summary:We consider Bäcklund transformations for hyperbolic linear Weingarten surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. The composition of these transformations is obtained in the Permutability Theorem that generates a 4-parameter family of surfaces of the same type. Since a Ribaucour transformation of a hyperbolic linear Weingarten surface also gives a 4-parameter family of such surfaces, one has the following natural question. Are these two methods equivalent, as it occurs with surfaces of constant positive Gaussian curvature or constant mean curvature? By obtaining necessary and sucient conditions for the surfaces given by the two procedures to be congruent.The analytic interpretation of the geometric results is given in terms of solutions of the sine-Gordon equation.
ISSN:0037-8712
2175-1188