A family of flat Minkowski planes over convex functions

Abstract

Using suitable convex functions, we construct a new family of flat Minkowski planes whose automorphism groups are at least $3$-dimensional. These planes admit groups of automorphisms isomorphic to the direct product of $\mathbb{R}$ and the connected component of the affine group on $\mathbb{R}$. We also determine isomorphism classes, automorphisms and possible Klein-Kroll types for our examples.