Spacelike hypersurfaces with constant higher order mean curvature in Minkowski space-time (Q1602449): Difference between revisions

Compact spacelike hypersurfaces in \((n+1)\)-dimensional Minkowski space with spherical boundary and constant mean or scalar curvature have been classified by Alías and Pastor. These results are extended, in the paper under review, to the case of constant higher order mean curvature. The higher order mean curvatures \(H_r\) are, up to sign, the elementary symmetric polynomials of the principal curvatures. Up to a constant factor, \(H_1\) is the mean curvature and \(H_2\) the scalar curvature. The proof is based on certain interesting integral formulae, which generalize previously known formulae to the case of higher order mean curvature.