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Isometric embedding of negatively curved complete surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space

Differential Geometry 2016-01-20 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Hilbert-Efimov theorem states that any complete surface with curvature bounded above by a negative constant can not be isometrically imbedded in R3.\mathbb{R}^3. We demonstrate that any simply-connected smooth complete surface with curvature bounded above by a negative constant admits a smooth isometric embedding into the Lorentz-Minkowski space R2,1\mathbb{R}^{2,1}.

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@article{arxiv.1109.4211,
  title  = {Isometric embedding of negatively curved complete surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space},
  author = {Bing-Long Chen and Le Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4211},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages