Graphic Bernstein results in curved pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2009.06.011MaRDI QIDQ838477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 26 August 2009

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3850

pseudo-Riemannian manifold mean curvature Bernstein theorem space-like submanifold

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We generalize a Bernstein-type result due to Albujer and Al'ias, for maximal surfaces in a curved Lorentzian product 3-manifold of the form

S i g m a_{1} i m e s m a t h b b R

, to higher dimension and codimension. We consider

M

a complete spacelike graphic submanifold with parallel mean curvature, defined by a map

f : S i g m a_{1} o S i g m a_{2}

between two Riemannian manifolds

(S i g m a_{1}^{m}, g_{1})

and

(S i g m a_{2}^{n}, g_{2})

of sectional curvatures

K_{1}

and

K_{2}

, respectively. We take on

S i g m a_{1} i m e s S i g m a_{2}

the pseudo-Riemannian product metric

g_{1} - g_{2}

. Under the curvature conditions,

m a t h r m {R i c c i}_{1} g e q 0

and

K_{1} g e q K_{2}

, we prove that, if the second fundamental form of

M

satisfies an integrability condition, then

M

is totally geodesic, and it is a slice if

m a t h r m {R i c c i}_{1} (p) > 0

at some point. For bounded

K_{1}

,

K_{2}

and hyperbolic angle

h e t a

, we conclude

M

must be maximal. If

M

is a maximal surface and

K_{1} g e q K_{2}^{+}

, we show

M

is totally geodesic with no need for further assumptions. Furthermore,

M

is a slice if at some point

p i n S i g m a_{1}

,

K_{1} (p) > 0

, and if

S i g m a_{1}

is flat and

K_{2} < 0

at some point

f (p)

, then the image of

f

lies on a geodesic of

S i g m a_{2}

.

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