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- Title
On the higher order mean curvatures of spacelike hypersurfaces in pp-wave spacetimes.
- Authors
Bisci, Giovanni Molica; Lacerda, José H. H. de; Lima, Henrique F. de; Velásquez, Marco A. L.
- Abstract
We study some geometric aspects of the higher order mean curvatures (or, more simply, the so-called $ r $-th mean curvatures) of a spacelike hypersurface immersed in a pp-wave spacetime, namely, in a connected Lorentzian manifold admitting a parallel and lightlike vector field. Initially, we develop general Minkowski-type integral formulas for compact (without boundary) spacelike hypersurfaces and we apply them to the study of the uniqueness and nonexistence of compact spacelike hypersurfaces in terms of their $ r $-mean curvatures. Next, we obtain a characterization of $ r $-stability for $ r $-maximal compact spacelike hypersurfaces through of the analysis of the first nonzero eigenvalue of an differential operator naturally attached to the $ r $-th mean curvature. For the noncompact case, by applying new forms of maximum principles on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds due to Caminha [17] and Alías, Caminha and Nascimento [3], we obtain sufficient geometric conditions involving some $ r $-th mean curvature and the volume growth that allow us to establish some nonexistence results or to guarantee that a complete noncompact spacelike hypersurface is either totally geodesic, or totally umbilical, or maximal, or $ r $-maximal. We also obtain estimates for the index of minimum relative nullity of spacelike hypersurfaces.
- Subjects
HYPERSURFACES; CURVATURE; MAXIMUM principles (Mathematics); RIEMANNIAN manifolds; DIFFERENTIAL operators; VECTOR fields; RIEMANNIAN geometry; RIEMANNIAN metric; GEODESICS
- Publication
Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
1937-1632
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3934/dcdss.2023045