Maximal surfaces in Anti-de Sitter space, width of convex hulls and quasiconformal extensions of quasisymmetric homeomorphisms (Q2418889)

Summary: We give upper bounds on the principal curvatures of a maximal surface of nonpositive curvature in three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space, which only depend on the width of the convex hull of the surface. Moreover, given a quasisymmetric homeomorphism \(\phi\), we study the relation between the width of the convex hull of the graph of \(\phi\), as a curve in the boundary of infinity of Anti-de Sitter space, and the cross-ratio norm of \(\phi\). As an application, we prove that if \(\phi\) is a quasisymmetric homeomorphism of \(\mathbb{R}\text P^1\) with cross-ratio norm \(||\phi||\), then ln \(K\leq C||\phi||\), where \(K\) is the maximal dilatation of the minimal Lagrangian extension of \(\phi\) to the hyperbolic plane.