Characterizations of linear Weingarten space-like hypersurface in a locally symmetric Lorentz space

Abstract

Abstract Our purpose in this paper is to study complete linear Weingarten space-like hypersurface immersed in locally symmetric Lorentz space obeying some curvature conditions. Our approach is based on the use of a Simons type formula related to an appropriated Cheng-Yau modified operator jointly with some generalized maximum principles, we obtain that such a space-like hypersurface must be either totally umbilical or isometric to an isoparametric hypersurface with two distinct principal curvatures, one of which is simple. This result corresponds to a natural improvement of previous ones due to de Lima, dos Santos, Velásquez [On the umbilicity of complete linear Weingarten spacelike hypersurfaces immersed in a locally symmetric Lorentz space, São Paulo J. Math. Sci. 11 (2017), 456–470] and Alías, de Lima, dos Santos [New characterizations of linear Weingarten spacelike hypersurfaces in de Sitter space, Pacific J. Math. 292 (2018), 1–19].