Spacelike hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature in the Minkowski space
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Spacelike hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature in the Minkowski space
zbMATH Open document ID: 0828.53050
DOI: 10.1007/BF01195136
author: An-Min Li
published in: Archiv der Mathematik
publication date: 1995-12-18T00:00:00Z
review text: It is well known that there is a standard embedding of the hyperbolic space \(H^2 (-1)\) into the Minkowski space \(\mathbb{R}^3_1\) as the spacelike surface \[ x^2_1 + x^2_2 - x^2_3 = -1\quad (x_3 > 0). \] Denoting the Gauss-Kronecker curvature with \(K\), the intrinsic Gauss-curvature (with respect to the Minkowski inner product) is \(-K\). The present paper deals with the problem of classifying the complete, spacelike, convex hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature \(K = 1\); the author restricts the discussion to the case of bounded principal curvatures. The main theorem says that, on the one hand, for every hypersurface in \(\mathbb{R}^{n + 1}_1\) of the above type there exists a function \(\varphi \in C^\infty (\partial B^n(1))\) \((B^n(1)\) the unit Ball), solving a certain Monge-Ampere equation, and conversely, given such a \(\varphi \in C^\infty\) \((\partial B^n (1))\) one can construct a hypersurface of the above type.
reviewed by: Friedrich Manhart
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C50
zbMATH DE Number: 769541
zbMATH Keywords: spacelike hypersurfaces
zbMATH Keywords: constant curvature
zbMATH Keywords: Minkowski space
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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