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INTEGRAL FORMULAE FOR SPACELIKE HYPERSURFACES IN CONFORMALLY STATIONARY SPACETIMES AND APPLICATIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2003

Luis J. Alías
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, E-30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain ([email protected])
Aldir Brasil
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza-Ce, Brazil ([email protected]; [email protected])
A. Gervasio Colares
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza-Ce, Brazil ([email protected]; [email protected])
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Abstract

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In this paper we develop general Minkowski-type formulae for compact spacelike hypersurfaces immersed into conformally stationary spacetimes, that is, Lorentzian manifolds admitting a timelike conformal field. We apply them to the study of the umbilicity of compact spacelike hypersurfaces in terms of their $r$-mean curvatures. We derive several uniqueness results, for instance, compact spacelike hypersurfaces are umbilical if either some of their $r$-mean curvatures are linearly related or one of them is constant.

AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 53C42. Secondary 53B30; 53C50; 53Z05; 83C99

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2003