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Hypersurfaces in non-flat Lorentzian space forms satisfying $L_k\psi=A\psi+b$

Differential Geometry 2011-01-18 v3

Abstract

We study hypersurfaces either in the De Sitter space §1n+1R1n+2\S_1^{n+1}\subset\R_1^{n+2} or in the anti De Sitter space \H_1^{n+1}\subset\R_2^{n+2} whose position vector ψ\psi satisfies the condition Lkψ=Aψ+bL_k\psi=A\psi+b, where LkL_k is the linearized operator of the (k+1)(k+1)-th mean curvature of the hypersurface, for a fixed k=0,...,n1k=0,...,n-1, AA is an (n+2)×(n+2)(n+2)\times(n+2) constant matrix and bb is a constant vector in the corresponding pseudo-Euclidean space. For every kk, we prove that when AA is self-adjoint and b=0b=0, the only hypersurfaces satisfying that condition are hypersurfaces with zero (k+1)(k+1)-th mean curvature and constant kk-th mean curvature, open pieces of standard pseudo-Riemannian products in §1n+1\S_1^{n+1} (§1m(r)×§nm(1r2)\S_1^m(r)\times\S^{n-m}(\sqrt{1-r^2}), \H^m(-r)\times\S^{n-m}(\sqrt{1+r^2}), §1m(1r2)×§nm(r)\S_1^m(\sqrt{1-r^2})\times\S^{n-m}(r), \H^m(-\sqrt{r^2-1})\times\S^{n-m}(r)), open pieces of standard pseudo-Riemannian products in \H_1^{n+1} (\H_1^m(-r)\times\S^{n-m}(\sqrt{r^2-1}), \H^m(-\sqrt{1+r^2})\times\S_1^{n-m}(r), \S_1^m(\sqrt{r^2-1})\times\H^{n-m}(-r), \H^m(-\sqrt{1-r^2})\times\H^{n-m}(-r)) and open pieces of a quadratic hypersurface {xMcn+1    Rx,x=d}\{x\in\mathbb{M}_{c}^{n+1}\;|\;Rx,x=d\}, where RR is a self-adjoint constant matrix whose minimal polynomial is t2+at+bt^2+at+b, a24b0a^2-4b\leq 0, and Mcn+1\mathbb{M}_{c}^{n+1} stands for §1n+1R1n+2\S_1^{n+1}\subset\R_1^{n+2} or \H_1^{n+1}\subset\R_2^{n+2}. When HkH_k is constant and bb is a non-zero constant vector, we show that the hypersurface is totally umbilical, and then we also obtain a classification result (see Theorem 2).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.2778,
  title  = {Hypersurfaces in non-flat Lorentzian space forms satisfying $L_k\psi=A\psi+b$},
  author = {Pascual Lucas and H. Fabián Ramírez-Ospina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2778},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

28 pages. Final version submitted to Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics