Communications of the
Korean Mathematical Society CKMS

In this note, we apply a maximum principle related to vo-lu-me growth of a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold, which was recently obtained by Al'{i}as, Caminha and do Nascimento in~cite{Alias-Caminha-Nascimento}, to es-ta-blish new uniqueness and nonexistence results concerning maximal spacelike hypersurfaces immersed in a generalized Robertson-Walker (GRW) spacetime obeying the timelike convergence condition. A study of entire solutions for the maximal hypersurface equation in GRW spacetimes is also made and, in particular, a new Calabi-Bernstein type result is presented.

Keywords: Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, timelike convergence condition, maximal hypersurfaces, entire graphs, maximal hypersurface equation

MSC numbers: Primary 53C42; Secondary 53C50