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On the Geometry of Conformally Stationary Lorentz Spaces

Differential Geometry 2010-04-06 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study several aspects of the geometry of conformally stationary Lorentz manifolds, and particularly of GRW spaces, due to the presence of a closed conformal vector field. More precisely, we begin by extending to these spaces a result of J. Simons on the minimality of cones in Euclidean space, and apply it to the construction of complete, noncompact maximal submanifolds of both de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spaces. Then we state and prove very general Bernstein-type theorems for spacelike hypersurfaces in conformally stationary Lorentz manifolds, one of which not assuming the hypersurface to be of constant mean curvature. Finally, we study the strong rr-stability of spacelike hypersurfaces of constant rr-th mean curvature in a conformally stationary Lorentz manifold of constant sectional curvature, extending previous results in the current literature.

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@article{arxiv.1004.0617,
  title  = {On the Geometry of Conformally Stationary Lorentz Spaces},
  author = {F. Camargo and A. Caminha and H. de Lima and M. Velasquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0617},
  year   = {2010}
}