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Anti-De Sitter Spacetimes and Isoparametric Hypersurfaces in Complex Hyperbolic Spaces

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Lorentzian Geometry and Related Topics (GELOMA 2016)

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By lifting hypersurfaces in complex hyperbolic spaces to anti-De Sitter spacetimes, we prove that an isoparametric hypersurface in the complex hyperbolic space has the same principal curvatures as a homogeneous one.

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Acknowledgements

The authors have been supported by projects MTM2016-75897-P (AEI/FEDER, UE), ED431F 2017/03, GRC2013-045 and MTM2013-41335-P with FEDER funds (Spain). The second author has received funding from a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (Spain), from the ICMAT Severo Ochoa project SEV-2015-0554 (MINECO, Spain), and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 745722. The third author has been supported by an FPU fellowship and by Fundación Barrié de la Maza (Spain).

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Díaz-Ramos, J.C., Domínguez-Vázquez, M., Sanmartín-López, V. (2017). Anti-De Sitter Spacetimes and Isoparametric Hypersurfaces in Complex Hyperbolic Spaces. In: Cañadas-Pinedo, M., Flores, J., Palomo, F. (eds) Lorentzian Geometry and Related Topics. GELOMA 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66290-9_6

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