Curvature estimates of hypersurfaces in the Minkowski space

Abstract

A class of curvature estimates of spacelike admissible hypersurfaces related to translating solitons of the higher order mean curvature flow in the Minkowski space is obtained, which may offer an idea to study an open question of the existence of hypersurfaces with the prescribed higher mean curvature in the Minkowski space.

Keywords

Minkowski space / Hypersurface / Curvature estimates / Translating solitons

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