Parabolic methods for the construction of spacelike slices of prescribed mean curvature in cosmological spacetimes

DOI10.1007/BF02104123zbMath0721.53055MaRDI QIDQ2640913

Gerhard Huisken, Klaus Ecker

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

spacelike hypersurfaceLorentz manifoldsprescribed mean curvaturecompact Cauchy surfacestimelike convergence condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30)

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