Spacelike submanifolds with parallel Gaussian mean curvature vector: rigidity and nonexistence (Q6185961)

Let \(\mathbb{R}^{n+p}\) denote a real vector space of dimension \((n+p)\) endowed with a bilinear form of signature \((n,p)\). Given an \(n\)-dimensional space-like immersed submanifold \(X:M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+p}\), its Gaussian mean curvature vector \(\xi\) is defined by \[ \xi= \vec{H}+\frac{1}{2}X^{\perp} \] where \(\vec{H}\) is the standard mean curvature vector of \(X\) and \(X^{\perp}\) denotes the normal part of \(X\). When \(\xi\) vanishes identically, \(M\) is called a space-like self-shrinker of \(\mathbb{R}^{n+p}\). Space-like self-shrinkers correspond to self-similar solutions to the space-like mean curvature flow in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+p}\). The authors investigate the rigidity and nonexistence of complete space-like submanifolds immersed with parallel Gaussian mean curvature vector in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+p}\). First, under suitable boundedness assumptions on the second fundamental form, they apply a Nishikawa type maximum principle for the drift Laplacian to prove that the space-like hyperplanes are the only \(n\)-dimensional complete space-like submanifolds immersed with parallel Gaussian mean curvature vector \(\mathbb{R}^{n+p}\). Secondly, they use Liouville type results and a maximum principle related to the notion of convergence to zero at infinity on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold to obtain further rigidity and nonexistence results related to these space-like submanifolds with parallel Gaussian mean curvature vector.