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Motivated by a classical result due to Ricci-Curbastro that gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a metric to be realizable on a minimal surface in the euclidean space, in this paper we study the same problem for maximal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space.
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R. M. B. Chaves, B. C. Valério and J. A. M. Vilhena partially supported by PROCAD NF 09/2010.
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Chaves, R.M.B., Valério, B.C. & Vilhena, J.A.M. Ricci-Curbastro Condition for Maximal Surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski Space. Results Math 71, 1373–1388 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-016-0596-x
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