# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2012, 17(6): 2225-2242. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.2225

## Convex spacelike hypersurfaces of constant curvature in de Sitter space

 1 Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States

Received  October 2011 Revised  November 2011 Published  May 2012

We show that for a very general and natural class of curvature functions (for example the curvature quotients $(\sigma_n/\sigma_l)^{\frac{1}{n-l}}$) the problem of finding a complete spacelike strictly convex hypersurface in de Sitter space satisfying $f(\kappa)=\sigma \in (1,\infty)$ with a prescribed compact future asymptotic boundary $\Gamma$ at infinity has at least one smooth solution (if $l=1$ or $l=2$ there is uniqueness). This is the exact analogue of the asymptotic plateau problem in Hyperbolic space and is in fact a precise dual problem. By using this duality we obtain for free the existence of strictly convex solutions to the asymptotic Plateau problem for $\sigma_l=\sigma,\,1 \leq l < n$ in both de Sitter and Hyperbolic space.
Citation: Joel Spruck, Ling Xiao. Convex spacelike hypersurfaces of constant curvature in de Sitter space. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2012, 17 (6) : 2225-2242. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.2225
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