Biconservative Surfaces in Robertson-Walker Spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly focus on space-like PMCV surfaces in Robertson-Walker spacetimes. First, we derive certain geometrical properties of biconservative surfaces in the Robertson-Walker space $L^n_1(f, c)$ of arbitrary dimension. Then, we get complete local classifications of such surfaces in $L^4_1(f,0)$, $L^5_1(f,0)$ and $L^5_1(1,\pm 1)$. Finally, we proved that a space-like PMCV biconservative surface in $L^n_1(f,0)$ lies on a totally geodesic submanifold with dimension $4$ or $5$.