Rigidity and nonexistence of complete spacelike hypersurfaces in the steady state space

Abstract

We study complete spacelike hypersurfaces immersed in an open region of the de Sitter space $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}_{1}$ which is known as the steady state space $\mathcal{H}^{n+1}$. In this setting, under suitable constraints on the behavior of the higher order mean curvatures of these hypersurfaces, we prove that they must be spacelike hyperplanes of $\mathcal{H}^{n+1}$. Nonexistence results concerning these spacelike hypersurfaces are also given. Our approach is based on a suitable extension of the Omori-Yau's generalized maximum principle due to Al\'{\i}as, Impera and Rigoli in [5].