On maximal surfaces in the \(n\)-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space (Q808450): Difference between revisions

The authors prove several theorems of Bernstein type for complete space- like 2-dimensional surfaces in n-dimensional Minkowski space with zero mean curvature. For example they show that if all timelike normals to such a surface in \({\mathbb{E}}^ n_ 1\), \(n\geq 4\), omit a neighborhood of a fixed timelike direction, then the surface is a plane. The authors erroneously refer to space-like zero mean curvature surfaces in \({\mathbb{E}}^ n_ 1\) as being maximal. This is only the case for \(n=3\).