On spacelike hypersurfaces of constant sectional curvature Lorentz manifolds (Q2496672)

The paper deals with \(n\)-dimensional space-like hypersurfaces of constant sectional curvature Lorentz manifolds given by an immersion of the form \(x: M^n \to \widetilde M^{n+1}.\) The author first computes \(L_r(S_r)\) for such immersions where \(L_r: \mathcal D(M) \to \mathcal D(M)\) is the second order differential operator defined as \[ L_r(f)=\text{tr}(P_r \text{Hess} f) \] where \(P_r\) is the \(r\)-th Newton transformation on \(M.\) Then the author makes use of the formula not only to consider \(r\)-maximal space-like hypersurfaces of \(\widetilde M\) but also to obtain conditions for the sectional curvature of \(M\) to make it umbilic in the case of a constant higher order mean curvature. One of the main results of the paper in terms of applications of the formula for \(L_r(S_r)\) is Theorem 1, i.e, if \(x: M^n \to \widetilde M^{n+1}_c\) is a closed space-like hypersurface of a time-oriented Lorentz manifold of constant sectional curvature \(c \geq 0\) and \(M\) is of constant scalar curvature \(R\) such that (a) \(c(\frac{n-2}{n})< R \leq c\), then \(M\) is totally umbilical, (b) \(c(\frac{n-2}{n})\leq R \leq c\) and \(S_3 \neq 0,\) then \(M\) is totally umbilical, (c) \(c(\frac{n-2}{n})\leq R < c\), then \(M\) has constant mean curvature. Moreover, the case of \(c(\frac{n-2}{n})< R < c\) is considered under some assumptions on the mean curvature \(H\) of \(M\) in Theorem 2.