Let X be a non-singular ruled surface over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. There is a non-trivial surjective endomorphism f : X → X if and only if X is (1) a toric surface, (2) a relatively minimal elliptic ruled surface, or (3) a relatively minimal ruled surface of irregularity greater than one which turns to be the product of P and the base curve after a finite étale bas...

The conchoid surface G of a given surface F with respect to a point O is roughly speaking the surface obtained by increasing the radius function of F with respect to O by a constant d. This paper studies real rational ruled surfaces in this context and proves that their conchoid surfaces possess real rational parameterizations, independently on the position of O. Thus any rational ruled surface...

Chen, Sederberg, and Zheng introduced the notion of a μ-basis for a rational ruled surface in Chen et al. (2001) and showed that its resultant is the implicit equation of the surface, if the parametrization is generically injective. We generalize this result to the case of an arbitrary parametrization of a rational ruled surface. We also give a new proof for the corresponding theorem in the cur...