Abstract
AbstractNew rigidity results for complete non-compact spacelike submanifolds of arbitrary codimension in plane fronted waves are obtained. Under appropriate assumptions, we prove that a complete spacelike submanifold in these spacetimes is contained in a characteristic lightlike hypersurface. Moreover, for a complete codimension two extremal submanifold in a plane fronted wave we show sufficient conditions to guarantee that it is a (totally geodesic) wavefront.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,Geometry and Topology,Algebra and Number Theory,Analysis
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