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Entire hypersurfaces of constant scalar curvature in Minkowski space

Differential Geometry 2024-08-20 v1

Abstract

We show that every regular domain D\mathcal D in Minkowski space Rn,1\mathbb R^{n,1} which is not a wedge admits an entire hypersurface whose domain of dependence is D\mathcal D and whose scalar curvature is a prescribed constant (or function, under suitable hypotheses) in (,0)(-\infty,0). Under rather general assumptions, these hypersurfaces are unique and provide foliations of D\mathcal D. As an application, we show that every maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy compact flat spacetime admits a foliation by hypersurfaces of constant scalar curvature, generalizing to any dimension previous results of Barbot-B\'eguin-Zeghib (for n=2n=2) and Smith (for n=3n=3).

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@article{arxiv.2408.10042,
  title  = {Entire hypersurfaces of constant scalar curvature in Minkowski space},
  author = {Pierre Bayard and Andrea Seppi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10042},
  year   = {2024}
}

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