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Some Aspects of the global Geometry of Entire Space-Like Submanifolds

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We prove some Bernstein type theorems for entire space-like subma-nifolds in pseudo-Euclidean space and as a corollary, we give a new proof of the Calabi-Pogorelov theorem for Monge-Ampère equations.

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Dedicated To S. S. Chern on the Occasion of his 90Th Birthday

The second-named author thanks the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences for its hospitality and support.

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Jost, J., Xin, Y.L. Some Aspects of the global Geometry of Entire Space-Like Submanifolds. Results. Math. 40, 233–245 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322708

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