Constant mean curvature spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes (Q5962033)

The authors are motivated by the Calabi-Bernstein problem and prove several uniqueness and non-existence results on complete constant mean curvature (CMC) space-like surfaces lying between two slices in certain three-dimensional generalized Robertson-Walker space-times. (An \(n\)-dimensional GRW space-time is a warped product of a definite negative one-dimensional base, and a Riemannian manifold as a fiber). The results are obtained from a local integral estimation of the squared length of the gradient of a distinguished smooth function on a CMC space-like surface, under a suitable curvature condition on the ambient space-time. As a consequence, all the entire bounded solutions to a certain family of CMC space-like surface differential equations are found.