{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q915136","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q915136","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q915136","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-07T02:02:32Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q915136","name":"The Gauss map of a spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurface of Minkowski space","headline":"The Gauss map of a spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurface of Minkowski space","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4151265","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q915136","datePublished":"1990-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q212627"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q185403"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1007/BF02566592","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566592"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566592"],"comment":"The author studies analogues of the Bernstein problem for complete spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space \\(R^{n,1}\\) with constant mean curvature. Let \\(\\eta\\) be the timelike unit normal field to M, which can be viewed as the (harmonic) Gauss map from M to the hyperbolic space \\(H^ n\\) embedded as the unit ``sphere'' in \\(R^{n,1}\\). He proves the Gauss image must be large: Theorem I. Let \\(M\\subset R^{n,1}\\) be a spacelike hypersurface with constant mean curvature \\(H\\neq 0\\). There is \\(\\tau =\\tau(n,H)>0\\) such that if \\(\\eta(M)\\) lies in a geodesic ball of radius \\(\\tau\\) in \\(H^ n\\), then M is not complete.    The proof relies on the following estimate for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue \\(\\lambda_ 1\\) of a geodesic ball \\(B_{\\rho}\\) of radius \\(\\rho\\) in M: Theorem II. If \\(B_{\\rho}\\subset M\\), then \\(\\lambda_ 1(B_{\\rho})\\geq nH^ 2(\\cosh \\tau -1)^{-1}.\\) Since there are upper bounds [\\textit{M. Gage}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 29, 897-912 (1980; Zbl 0465.53031)] for \\(\\lambda_ 1\\) in terms of the minimum \\(\\underline R\\) for the Ricci curvature on \\(B_{\\rho}\\subset M\\), and since \\(\\underline R\\geq -n^ 2H^ 2/4\\) [\\textit{S. Y. Cheng} and \\textit{S. T. Yau}, Ann. Math., II. Ser. 104, 407-419 (1976; Zbl 0352.53021)], one gets a contradiction if \\(\\tau\\) is too small."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-07T02:02:32Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}