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The Penrose inequality in Minkowski is a geometric inequality relating the total outer null expansion and the area of closed, connected and spacelike codimension-two surfaces \({{\bf \mathcal{S}}}\) in the Minkowski spacetime, subject to an additional convexity assumption. In a recent paper, Brendle and Wang A (Gibbons–Penrose inequality for surfaces in Schwarzschild Spacetime. arXiv:1303.1863, 2013) find a sufficient condition for the validity of this Penrose inequality in terms of the geometry of the orthogonal projection of \({{\bf \mathcal{S}}}\) onto a constant time hyperplane. In this work, we study the geometry of hypersurfaces in n-dimensional Euclidean space which are normal graphs over other surfaces and relate the intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of the graph with that of the base hypersurface. These results are used to rewrite Brendle and Wang’s condition explicitly in terms of the time height function of \({{\bf \mathcal{S}}}\) over a hyperplane and the geometry of the projection of \({{\bf \mathcal{S}}}\) along its past null cone onto this hyperplane. We also include, in Appendix, a self-contained summary of known and new results on the geometry of projections along the Killing direction of codimension two-spacelike surfaces in a strictly static spacetime.
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Mars, M., Soria, A. Geometry of Normal Graphs in Euclidean Space and Applications to the Penrose Inequality in Minkowski. Ann. Henri Poincaré 15, 1903–1918 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-013-0296-y
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