Volume 21 • Number 1 • 1998
 
Spacelike Maximal Surfaces with Constant Scalar Normal Curvature in a Normal Contact Lorentzian Manifold
Ikawa Toshihiko
Abstract. If the scalar normal curvature of a spacelike maximal surface in a 5-dimensional normal contact Lorentzian manifold with constant -sectional curvature is constant, then the surface is totally geodesic or nonpositively curved.

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