IJPAM: Volume 7, No. 2 (2003)

ON THE CURVATURES OF $(k+1)$-DIMENSIONAL
SPACE-LIKE RULED SURFACES IN
THE MINKOWSKI SPACE $\mathbb{R}_{1}^{n}$

Murat Tosun$^1$, Zafer Demir$^2$
$^1$Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Arts Sciences
Sakarya University
54100 Mithatpasa, Sakarya, TURKEY
e-mail: tosun@sakarya.edu.tr
$^2$Department of Electrical-Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Sakarya University
Sakarya, TURKEY
e-mail: zdemir@sakarya.edu.tr


Abstract.In this paper we give some results and theorems related with the Ricci curvature, scalar curvature and scalar normal curvature of space-like ruled surface in the Minkowski n-Space. Moreover, we give a theorem connected with totally geodesic space-like ruled surfaces.

Received: April 20, 2003

AMS Subject Classification: 53A35

Key Words and Phrases: Minkowski space, space-like ruled surface

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2003
Volume: 7
Issue: 2