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Entire surfaces of constant curvature in Minkowski 3-space

Differential Geometry 2019-09-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

This paper concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional Minkowski space in relation to their Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge is uniquely foliated by properly embedded convex surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature. This is a consequence of our classification of surfaces with bounded prescribed Gaussian curvature, sometimes called the Minkowski problem, for which partial results were obtained by Li, Guan-Jian-Schoen, and Bonsante-Seppi. Some applications to minimal Lagrangian self-maps of the hyperbolic plane are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1805.08024,
  title  = {Entire surfaces of constant curvature in Minkowski 3-space},
  author = {Francesco Bonsante and Andrea Seppi and Peter Smillie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08024},
  year   = {2019}
}

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37 pages, 5 figures