Spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the steady state space

TL;DR

This paper studies complete spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the steady state space, proving conditions under which the mean curvature is fixed and classifying certain surfaces in this setting.

Contribution

It establishes that bounded hypersurfaces away from infinity have mean curvature H=1 and classifies 2D cases as totally umbilical flat surfaces, extending results to broader spacetimes.

Findings

Hypersurfaces bounded away from infinity have mean curvature H=1.

In 2D, only totally umbilical flat surfaces satisfy the conditions.

Results extend to a wider class of spacetimes using isometric models.

Abstract

We consider complete spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the open region of de Sitter space known as the steady state space. We prove that if the hypersurface is bounded away from the infinity of the ambient space, then the mean curvature must be H=1. Moreover, in the 2-dimensional case we obtain that the only complete spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature which are bounded away from the infinity are the totally umbilical flat surfaces. We also derive some other consequences for hypersurfaces which are bounded away from the future infinity. Finally, using an isometrically equivalent model for the steady state space, we extend our results to a wider family of spacetimes.