• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: ON THE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE OF MAXIMAL SURFACES AND THE CALABI–BERNSTEIN THEOREM
  • Beteiligte: ALÍAS, LUIS J.; PALMER, BENNETT
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2001
  • Erschienen in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0024609301008220
  • ISSN: 0024-6093; 1469-2120
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>In this paper, a new approach to the Calabi–Bernstein theorem on maximal surfaces in the Lorentz– Minkowski space <jats:bold>L</jats:bold><jats:sup>3</jats:sup> is introduced. The approach is based on an upper bound for the total curvature of geodesic discs in a maximal surface in <jats:bold>L</jats:bold><jats:sup>3</jats:sup>, involving the local geometry of the surface and its hyperbolic image. As an application of this, a new proof of the Calabi–Bernstein theorem is provided.</jats:p>