Liouville's theorem revisited

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Authors Ruy Tojeiro

Publication date 28 January 2008

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

isometric immersionslight coneMinkowski space of dimension \((n+2)\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Rigidity results (53C24)

Review text

Summary: Liouville's theorem turns out to be equivalent to a rigidity theorem for isometric immersions of open subsets of Euclidean space of dimension \(n\geq 3\) into the light cone of Minkowski space of dimension \((n+2)\). We give a short direct proof of this theorem, thus yielding a simple new proof of Liouville's theorem. Understanding where things to wrong in the case \(n=2\) leads to an interesting characterization of the complex exponential function.

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