Ruled Minimal Surfaces in the 3-dimensional Solvable Group

Abstract

We study ruled minimal surfaces in a family of three-dimensional solvable Lie groups depending on a real parameter $p$ and endowed with left-invariant metrics. For $p\neq 0$, we classify all orthogonal ruled surfaces and construct new examples of minimal surfaces. For $p=0$, we parametrize all ruled surfaces and obtain additional examples of minimal surfaces.