
1 Introduction
In classical differential geometry, the problem of
obtaining Gaussian and mean curvatures of a sur-
face in Euclidean space and other spaces is one
of the most important problems, so we are inter-
ested here to study such a problem for a surface
known as affine factorable surface in the three-
dimensional pseudo-Galilean space G1
3.
The geometry of Galilean Relativity acts like
a “bridge” from Euclidean geometry to special
Relativity. The Galilean space which can be de-
fined in three-dimensional projective space P3(R)
is the space of Galilean Relativity, [1]. The ge-
ometries of Galilean and pseudo-Galilean spaces
have similarities, but, of course, are different. In
the Galilean and pseudo Galilean spaces, some
special surfaces such as surfaces of revolution,
ruled surfaces, translation surfaces and tubular
surfaces have been studied in [2], [3], [4], [5], [6],
[7], [8], [9], [10]. For further study of surfaces
in the pseudo-Galilean space, we refer the reader
to [9]. Recall that the graph surfaces are also
known as Monge surfaces, [11]. In this work, we
are interested here in studying a special type of
Monge surface, namely the factorable surface of
the second kind that is a graph of the function
y(x, z) = f(x)g(z). Such surfaces with non-zero
constant Gaussian and mean curvatures in vari-
ous ambient spaces have been classified (see, [12],
[13], [14], [15], [16]). Our purpose is to analyze the
factorable surfaces in the pseudo-Galilean space
G1
3that is one of real Cayley-Klein spaces (for
more details see, [17], [18], [19]). There exist three
different kinds of factorable surfaces, explicitly, a
Monge surface in G1
3is said to be factorable (so-
called a homothetic) if it is given in one of the fol-
lowing forms: Φ1:z(x, y) = f(x)g(y) is the first
kind, Φ2:y(x, z) = f(x)g(z) the second kind, and
Φ3:x(y, z) = f(y)g(z) the third kind where f,g
are smooth functions, [14]. These surfaces have
different geometric structures in different spaces
such as metric, curvatures, etc. We hope that this
work will be useful for the specialists in this field.
2 Basic concepts
The pseudo-Galilean space G1
3is one of the
Cayley-Klein spaces with absolute figure that con-
sists of the ordered triple {ω, f, I}, where ωis
the absolute plane given by xo= 0,in the three-
dimensional real projective space P3(R), fthe ab-
solute line in ωgiven by xo=x1= 0 and Ithe
fixed hyperbolic involution of points of fand rep-
resented by (0 : 0 : x2:x3)→(0 : 0 : x3:x2),
which is equivalent to the requirement that the
conic x2
2−x2
3= 0 is the absolute conic. The metric
Investigation of Affine Factorable Surfaces in Pseudo-Galilean Space
MOHAMED SAAD1*, HOSSAM ABDEL-AZIZ2, HAYTHAM ALI2
1Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah, Al-Madinah,
SAUDI ARABIA
2Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, EGYPT
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate affine factorable surfaces of the second kind in the three-dimensional
pseudo-Galilean space G1 3. We use the invariant theory and theory of diffeerential equations to study the
geometric properties of these surfaces, namely, the first and second fundamental forms, Gaussian and mean
curvatures. Also, we present some special cases by changing the partial diffeerential equation into the ordinary
diffeerential equation to simplify our special cases. Furthermore, we give some theorems according to zero and
non-zero Gaussian and mean curvatures of the meant surfaces. Finally, we give some examples to confifirm and
demonstrate our results.
KeyWords: Affine factorable surfaces, minimal surfaces, Gaussian and mean curvatures, pseudo-Galilean
space.
Received: April 29, 2023. Revised: August 2, 2023. Accepted: August 23, 2023. Published: September 26, 2023.
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on MATHEMATICS
DOI: 10.37394/23206.2023.22.73
Mohamed Saad, Hossam Abdel-Aziz, Haytham Ali