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An analytic extension of a spacelike maximal surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Sung-Eun Koh
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Konkuk University, Seoul 143–701, Korea e-mail: sekoh@konkuk.ac.kr
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It is shown that a spacelike maximal surface in the three dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space can be extended analytically if it meets a spacelike plane at a constant hyperbolic angle.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2007

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