CMC surfaces of revolution, elliptic curves, Weierstrass-\(\wp \) functions, and algebraicity

Abstract

This paper establishes an interesting connection between the family of CMC surfaces of revolution in \(\mathbb {E}_1^3\) and some specific families of elliptic curves. As a consequence of this connection, we show in the class of spacelike CMC surfaces of revolution in \(\mathbb {E}_1^3\), only spacelike cylinders and standard hyperboloids are algebraic. We also show that a similar connection exists between CMC surfaces of revolution in \(\mathbb E^3\) and elliptic curves. Further, we use this to reestablish the fact that the only CMC algebraic surfaces of revolution in \(\mathbb E^3\) are spheres and right circular cylinders.