PARABOLICITY OF SPACELIKE HYPERSURFACES IN GENERALIZED ROBERTSON–WALKER SPACETIMES: APPLICATIONS TO UNIQUENESS RESULTS

We study non-compact complete spacelike hypersurfaces in generalized Robertson–Walker spacetimes of arbitrary dimension whose fiber is parabolic. Under boundedness assumptions on the warping function restricted on a spacelike hypersurface and on the hyperbolic angle of the hypersurface, we prove that a complete spacelike hypersurface is parabolic if the Riemannian universal covering of the fiber is so. As an application of this new technique, several uniqueness results on complete maximal spacelike hypersurfaces are obtained. Also, the corresponding Calabi–Bernstein problems are solved.

COMPLETE CMC SPACELIKE SURFACES WITH BOUNDED HYPERBOLIC ANGLE IN GENERALIZED ROBERTSON–WALKER SPACETIMES

Complete spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature (CMC) and bounded hyperbolic angle in Generalized Robertson–Walker (GRW) spacetimes, obeying certain natural curvature assumptions, are studied. This boundedness assumption arises as a natural extension of the notion of bounded hyperbolic image of a spacelike surface in the 3-dimensional Lorentz–Minkowski spacetime. The results obtained apply to complete CMC spacelike surfaces lying between two spacelike slices in an GRW spacetime, in the steady state spacetime and in a static GRW spacetime. As an application, uniqueness and non-existence theorems for certain CMC spacelike surface differential equations in a wide family of open GRW spacetimes are given.

An analytic extension of a spacelike maximal surface

It is shown that a spacelike maximal surface in the three dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space can be extended analytically if it meets a spacelike plane at a constant hyperbolic angle.