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On the global evolution problem in \(2+1\) gravity (English)
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1 November 1998
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The notion of `\(2+1\) gravity' refers to an ambient Lorentzian 3-manifold of constant curvature. In such a space a closed surface of constant mean curvature and genus at least 2 is studied. The existence of a foliation by such CMC surfaces is shown. A simple example is a warped product metric of the ambient space where each level is a (totally umbilic) CMC surface of constant curvature. The proof relies on a reduction of the evolution equation to a time-dependent Hamiltonian system on the cotangent bundle of Teichmüller space.
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CMC gauge
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Dirichlet energy
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globally hyperbolic
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conformal constraint equations
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\(2+1\) gravity
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evolution equation
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