Characterizations of linear Weingarten spacelike hypersurfaces in Einstein spacetimes (Q2845573)

This is a paper about space-like hypersurfaces immersed in a Lorentzian space, a subject interesting from both, mathematical (Bernstein-type properties) and physical (relativity theory) points of view.NEWLINENEWLINEConcretely, the authors study the geometry of linear Weingarten space-like hypersurfaces (i.e. space-like hypersurfaces whose mean curvature \(H\) and normalized scalar curvature \(R\) satisfy \(R=aH+b\), for some real numbers \(a\), \(b\)) in a locally symmetric Einstein spacetime. The sectional curvature of the ambient space is supposed to satisfy some standard restrictions introduced in [\textit{S. M. Choi} et al., Math. J. Toyama Univ. 22, 53--76 (1999; Zbl 0956.53047); \textit{Y. J. Suh} et al., Houston J. Math. 28, No. 1, 47--70 (2002; Zbl 1025.53035)]. The authors establish sufficient conditions to guarantee that such space-like hypersurfaces must be either totally umbilical or isoparametric hypersurfaces with two distinct principal curvatures, one of which is simple. They give applications of their results when the ambient space is the de Sitter space.NEWLINENEWLINEThe approach uses the Cheng-Yau square operator [\textit{S.-Y. Cheng} and \textit{S.-T. Yau}, Math. Ann. 225, 195--204 (1977; Zbl 0349.53041)] and a generalized maximum principle for complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds, which is an extension due to \textit{A. Caminha} in [Bull. Braz. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 42, No. 2, 277--300 (2011; Zbl 1242.53068)] of the maximum principle at infinity of \textit{S. T. Yau} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 25, 659--670 (1976; Zbl 0335.53041); erratum ibid. 31, 607 (1982)].