Two rigidity results for surfaces in Schwarzschild spacetimes

Abstract

We prove two rigidity results for surfaces lying in the standard null hypersurfaces of Schwarzschild spacetime satisfying certain mean curvature type equations. The first is for the equation ${\alpha }_H=-d\log |H|$ studied in \cite{WWZ}. The second is for the mean curvature vector of constant norm. The latter is related to the Liouville and Obata Theorem in conformal geometry.

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