Classifying hypersurfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space with a characteristic eigenvector (Q1210383)

The authors study the family \(C_ \lambda\) of hypersurfaces in \(L^{n+1}\) satisfying the condition \(\Delta H=\lambda H\) for a real constant \(\lambda\) \((H\): mean curvature of the hypersurface). The major result is: Let \(M\) be a hypersurface of \(L^{n+1}\) in the set \(C_ \lambda\) then \(M\) is a constant mean curvature hypersurface. The set \(C_ \lambda\) is described by the following result: Let \(M\) be a hypersurface of \(L^{n+1}\) in the set \(C_ \lambda\). Then one of the following statements holds: 1) \(M\) has zero mean curvature everywhere. 2) \(M\) is an open piece of one of the following hypersurfaces: \(H^ n(r)\), \(H^ k(r)\times R^{n-k}\), \(L^ k\times S^{n-k}(r)\), \(S_ 1^ k(r)\times R^{n-k}\), \(S^ n_ 1(r)\). 3) \(M\) is a B-scroll. 4) \(M\) is a generalized umbilical hypersurface.