On spacelike surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime through a lightcone
Differential Geometry
2012-02-22 v1
Abstract
On any spacelike surface in a lightcone of four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space a distinguished smooth function is considered. It is shown how both extrinsic and intrinsic geometry of such a surface is codified by this function. The existence of a local maximum is assumed to decide when the spacelike surface must be totally umbilical, deriving a Liebmann type result. Two remarkable families of examples of spacelike surfaces in a lightcone are explicitly constructed. Finally, several results which involve the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator of a compact spacelike surface in a lightcone are obtained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.4589,
title = {On spacelike surfaces in 4-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime through a lightcone},
author = {Francisco J. Palomo and Alfonso Romero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4589},
year = {2012}
}