Complete space-like self-expanders in the Minkovski space

Abstract

It is our purpose to study complete space-like self-expanders in the Minkovski space. By use of maximum principle of Omori-Yau type, we can obtain the rigidity theorems on $n$-dimensional complete space-like self-expanders in the Minkovski space $\mathbb R^{n+1}_{1}$. For complete space-like self-expanders of dimension $2$, we give a classification of them under assumption of constant squared norm of the second fundamental form.