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Spacelike surfaces in Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes whose mean curvature function satisfies a natural nonlinear inequality are analyzed. Several uniqueness and nonexistence results for such compact spacelike surfaces are proved.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Alfonso Romero , Rafael M. Rubio

In this paper we establish some parabolicity criteria for maximal surfaces immersed into a Lorentzian product space of the form $M^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$, where $M^2$ is a connected Riemannian surface with non-negative Gaussian curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-23 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

Calabi and Cheng-Yau's Bernstein-type theorem asserts that an entire zero mean curvature graph in Lorentz-Minkowski $(n+1)$-space $\boldsymbol R^{n+1}_1$ which admits only space-like points is a hyperplane. Recently, the third and fourth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Shintaro Akamine , Atsufumi Honda , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

We obtain a gradient estimate for the Gauss maps from complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space into the hyperbolic space. As applications, we prove a Bernstein theorem which says that if the image of the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Huai-Dong Cao , Ying Shen , Shunhui Zhu

In this paper we establish new Calabi-Bernstein results for maximal surfaces immersed into a Lorentzian product space of the form $M^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$, where $M^2$ is a connected Riemannian surface and $M^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$ is endowed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

Uniqueness and non-existence results on complete constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces lying between two spacelike slice in the Einstein-de Sitter spacetime are given. They are obtained from a Liouvielle-type theorem applied to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Rafael M. Rubio

In this paper, we prove Bernstein type theorems for entire convex graphical hypersurfaces with zero Gaussian curvature in both Euclidean and Minkowski context. A supplementary example illustrates that zero Gaussian convex spacelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Slawomir Dinew , Mengru Guo , Heming Jiao

In this note we characterize compact hypersurfaces of dimension $n\geq 2$ with constant mean curvature $H$ immersed in space forms of constant curvature and satisfying an optimal integral pinching condition: they are either totally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Giovanni Catino

In this paper we study the problem of uniqueness for spacelike hypersurfaces with constant higher order mean curvature in generalized Robertson-Walker (GRW) spacetimes. In particular, we consider the following question: Under what…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-03 Luis J. Alias , A. Gervasio Colares

There are examples of complete spacelike surfaces in the Lorentzian product $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}_1$ with constant Gaussian curvature $K\leq -1$. In this paper, we show that there exists no complete spacelike surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

Let $M$ be a globally hyperbolic maximal compact $3$-dimensional spacetime locally modelled on Minkowski, anti-de Sitter or de Sitter space. It is well known that $M$ admits a unique foliation by constant mean curvature surfaces. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Qiyu Chen , Andrea Tamburelli

The aim of this manuscript is to obtain rigidity and non-existence results for parabolic spacelike submanifolds with causal mean curvature vector field in orthogonally splitted spacetimes, and in particular, in globally hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Alma L. Albujer , Jónatan Herrera , Rafael M. Rubio

We address the problem of finding conditions under which a compact Lorentzian manifold is geodesically complete, a property, which always holds for compact Riemannian manifolds. It is known that a compact Lorentzian manifold is geodesically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Thomas Leistner , Daniel Schliebner

We show that every regular domain $\mathcal D$ in Minkowski space $\mathbb R^{n,1}$ which is not a wedge admits an entire hypersurface whose domain of dependence is $\mathcal D$ and whose scalar curvature is a prescribed constant (or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Pierre Bayard , Andrea Seppi

In this paper, we investigate the rigidity problems of complete hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and constant scalar curvature in Euclidean spaces. Firstly, under some conditions of Gaussian-Kronecker curvature, we provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianquan Ge , Ya Tao

We consider four-dimensional vacuum spacetimes which admit a nonvanishing spacelike Killing field. The quotient with respect to the Killing action is a three-dimensional quotient spacetime $(M,g)$. We establish several results regarding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-10 Andrew Bulawa

In this work we study maximal hypersurfaces in spatially open Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes with Ricci-flat fiber by means of a generalized maximum principle. In particular, under natural geometric and physical assumptions we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-10 José A. S. Pelegrín

We prove that every $(3+1)$-dimensional flat GHMC Minkowski spacetime which is not a translation spacetime or a Misner spacetime carries a unique foliation by spacelike hypersurfaces of constant scalar curvature. In otherwords, we prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Graham Smith

In this paper, we give the geometric meaning of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in a Finsler manifold by using volume preserving variation. Then we give the correspondence between principal curvatures of submanifolds by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Yali Chen , Qun He , Yantong Qian

Motivated by previous study on mean curvature flow and prescribed mean curvature flow on spatially compact space or asymptotically flat spacetime, in this work we will find sufficient conditions for the short time existence of prescribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Luen-Fai Tam