Prescribing Gauss curvature of surfaces in 3-dimensional spacetimes. Application to the Minkowski problem in the Minkowski space

DOI10.5802/AIF.2622zbMATH Open1234.53019arXiv0804.1053OpenAlexW1508791318MaRDI QIDQ646397FDOQ646397

Authors: Thierry Barbot, François Béguin, Abdelghani Zeghib 

Publication date: 17 November 2011

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with constant non-negative curvature is foliated by compact spacelike surfaces with constant Gauss curvature. In the constant negative curvature case, such a foliation exists outside the convex core. The existence of these foliations, together with a theorem of C. Gerhardt, yield several corollaries. For example, they allow to solve the Minkowski problem in the 3-dimensional Minkowski space for datas that are invariant under the action of a co-compact Fuchsian group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1053

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zbMATH Keywords

Gauss curvatureMinkowski problem\(K\)-curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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