Spinor representation of Lorentzian surfaces in R^{2,2}

Abstract

We prove that an isometric immersion of a simply connected Lorentzian surface in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2,2}$ is equivalent to a normalised spinor field solution of a Dirac equation on the surface. Using the quaternions and the Lorentz numbers, we also obtain an explicit representation formula of the immersion in terms of the spinor field. We then apply the representation formula in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2,2}$ to give a new spinor representation formula for Lorentzian surfaces in 3-dimensional Minkowski space. Finally, we apply the representation formula to the local description of the flat Lorentzian surfaces with flat normal bundle and regular Gauss map in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2,2},$ and show that these surfaces locally depend on four real functions of one real variable, or on one holomorphic function together with two real functions of one real variable, depending on the sign of a natural invariant.

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1212.3543 . Many improvements concerning the writing of the paper. To appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics

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• On Lorentzian surfaces in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2,2}$

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