scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1116696

MaRDI QIDQ4376384zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gregory J. Galloway

Publication date 11 March 1998

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy surfaceenergy conditiongeodesic completenesshypersurfacesmaximum principlemean curvaturerigidityspace-timessplitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Review text

This paper gives a survey about rigidity results for hypersurfaces of spacetimes. One of the main tools is the maximum principle. It roughly states the following: assume that two spacelike hypersurfaces \(\Sigma_1, \Sigma_2\) meet at a point \(p\) such that \(\Sigma_2\) is locally to the future of \(\Sigma_1\) near \(p\). Assume further that the two mean curvatures satisfy \(H (\Sigma_2) \leq a\leq H (\Sigma_1)\) for some constant \(a\). Then \(\Sigma_1\) and \(\Sigma_2\) coincide in a neighborhood of \(p\). Furthermore and in the same context, Bartnik's splitting conjecture is discussed, an analogue of the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem in Riemannian geometry. It is proved under additional assumptions which are milder than in previous approaches by the author, J.-H. Eschenburg and R. Bartnik. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0880.00054].

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