Parallel surfaces in the motion groups $E(1,1)$ and $E(2)$

Abstract

We give a classification of parallel surfaces in the groups of rigid motions of Minkowski plane and Euclidean plane, equipped with a general left-invariant metric. Our result completes the classification of parallel surfaces in the eight three-dimensional model geometries of Thurston and in three-dimensional unimodular Lie groups with maximal isometry group.