This paper concerns space-like submanifolds in a pseudo-Riemannian space-time Spm+p () Epm+p+1 (p≥1), and proves that connected compact maximal space-like submanifolds in a pseudo-Riemannian spacetime Spm+p () Epm+p+1 (p≥1) must be totally umbilical, and also totally geodesic. Particularly, when p= 1, our result is just Montiel's in case of H=0.
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