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We prove existence and stability of smooth entire strictly convex spacelike hypersurfaces of prescribed Gauss curvature in Minkowski space. The proof is based on barrier constructions and local a priori estimates.

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In this paper, we study generalized constant ratio surfaces in the Euclidean 4-space. We also obtain a classifications of constant slope surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Alev Kelleci , Nurettin Cenk Turgay , Mahmut Ergüt

In this work we introduce the notion of constant angle null hypersurface of a Lorentzian manifold with respect to a given ambient vector field. We analyze the case in which the vector field is closed and conformal, thus finding that such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Samuel Chable-Naal , Matias Navarro , Didier A Solis

We are concerned with spacelike convex hypersurfaces of positive constant (K-hypersurfaces) or prescribed Gauss curvature in Minkowski space. Our main purpose is to study entire solutions as well as the Dirichlet problem in bounded domains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bo Guan , Huaiyu Jian , Richard M. Schoen

In this paper we solve the Plateau problem for spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature in Lorentz-Minkowski three-space $\l^3$ and spanning two circular (axially symmetric) contours in parallel planes. We prove that rotational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafael Lopez

A spacelike surface in four-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime through the lightcone has a meaningful lightlike normal vector field $\eta$. Several sufficient assumptions on such a surface with non-degenerate $\eta$-second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Francisco J. Rodriguez , Alfonso Romero

In the Minkowski space, we consider a compact, spacelike hypersurface with boundary, which can be written as a graph on a spacelike hyperplane. We prove that, if its $k$-th mean curvature is constant, and its boundary is on the hyperplane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Shanze Gao

In this article we study surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3(1) \times \mathbb{R}$ for which the $\mathbb{R}$-direction makes a constant angle with the normal plane. We give a complete classification for such surfaces with parallel mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-04 Daguang Chen , Gangyi Chen , Hang Chen , Franki Dillen

Let $I \subseteq \R$ be an open interval, $f : I \to \R$ a strictly positive function and denote by $\E^2$ the Euclidean plane. We classify all surfaces in the warped product manifold $I \times_f \E^2$ for which the unit normal makes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-21 Franki Dillen , Marian Ioan Munteanu , Joeri Van der Veken , Luc Vrancken

We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-18 Thierry Barbot , François Béguin , Abdelghani Zeghib

We first describe the numerical invariants attached to the second fundamental form of a spacelike surface in four-dimensional Minkowski space. We then study the configuration of the nu-principal curvature lines on a spacelike surface, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Pierre Bayard , Federico Sánchez-Bringas

In this paper we classify complete surfaces of constant mean curvature whose Gaussian curvature does not change sign in a simply connected homogeneous manifold with a 4-dimensional isometry group.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Jose M. Espinar , Harold Rosenberg

In this paper we classify certain special ruled surfaces in $\R^3$ under the general theorem of characterization of constant angle surfaces. We study the tangent developable and conical surfaces from the point of view the constant angle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-10 Ana-Irina Nistor

We prove that, in Minkowski space, if a spacelike, $(n-1)$-convex hypersurface $M$ with constant $\sigma_{n-1}$ curvature has bounded principal curvatures, then $M$ is convex. Moreover, if $M$ is not strictly convex, after an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Changyu Ren , Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

On any space-like W-surface in the three-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce locally natural principal parameters and prove that such a surface is determined uniquely up to motion by a special invariant function, which satisfies a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Georgi Ganchev , Vesselka Mihova

We investigate a variational problem in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$ whose critical points are spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature and making constant contact angle with a given support surface along its common boundary.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

Spacelike intrinsic rotational surfaces with constant mean curvature in the Lorentz-Minkowski space $\E_1^3$ have been recently investigated by Brander et al., extending the known Smyth's surfaces in Euclidean space. Assuming that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Seher Kaya , Rafael López

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

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field and assume that the four-dimensional space-time manifold is a warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth, entire, strictly convex, spacelike, constant $\sigma_k$ curvature hypersurfaces with prescribed lightlike directions in Minkowski space. This is equivalent to prove the existence of smooth,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao