An Isaac Newton Institute Programme

Global Problems in Mathematical Relativity

Barriers and CMC hypersurfaces

11th October 2005

Author: Bartnik, R (Monash University)

Abstract

This talk will review the existence and regularity theory for spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature. These results rely on apriori gradient estimates and results on uniformly elliptic quasi-linear elliptic PDE. Conditions under which singular solutions arise as solutions to the associated variational problem will be described.