Spacelike hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature in the Minkowski space
Spacelike hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature in the Minkowski space
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01195136
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发表时间:
1995-06
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0.6
通讯作者:
An-Min Li
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作者:
An-Min Li
1. Introduction. It is well-known that the hyperbolic space H z (_ 1) can be canonically embedded into the Minkowski space R 3 as the surface x~+ x~-x~=-l, x3> 0 which is a spacelike, totally umbilic surface in R 3. In [6] Hano and Nomizu described other noncongruent isometric embeddings of H2 (-1). The following problem arises naturally: classify the complete spacelike surfaces in R~ with constant intrinsic Gauss curvature-1. A generalization to higher dimensions of such a problem is to classify the complete, spacelike, convex hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature K= i. In this paper we restrict ourselves to hypersurfaces with bounded principal curvatures. We will show in Section 3 that the study of complete, spacelike, convex hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature K= 1 and with bounded principal curvatures is reduced to the following equation