Regularity for Weakly H-surfaces into Static Lorentzian Manifolds

Abstract

The authors investigate H-surfaces into static Lorentzian manifolds and show the Hölder continuity of weak solutions.

Keywords

Regularity / H-surface / Static Lorentzian manifold / 53B43 / 58B20

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