Quasicircles and quasiperiodic surfaces in pseudo-hyperbolic spaces (Q6101148)

The pseudo-hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\) can be defined as the space of unit time-like vectors in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+3}\) endowed with a bilinear form of signature \((2, n+1)\). It is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of constant sectional curvature \(-1\). Its boundary at infinity \(\partial_{\infty}\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\) is called Einstein Universe. The paper studies pointed complete maximal surfaces in \(\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\). The group \(\mathrm{SO}_{0}(2, n+1)\) acts cocompactly on the space \(\mathcal{M}(n)\) of complete pointed maximal surfaces in \(\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\). A pointed maximal surface \((x,\Sigma)\) is called quasiperiodic if its orbit closure in \(\mathcal{M}(n)\) does not contain the Barbot surface, which is the unique flat complete maximal surface in \(\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\). The main result of the paper is the following: Theorem. Let \(\Sigma\) be a complete maximal surfaces in \(\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\). Then the following are equivalent: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] \(\Sigma\) is quasiperiodic; \item[2.] The induced metric on \(\Sigma\) has curvature bounded above by some negative constant; \item[3.] The induced metric on \(\Sigma\) is Gromov hyperbolic; \item[4.] \(\Sigma\) is of conformal hyperbolic type and any uniformization is bi-Lipschitz; \item[5.] The limit curve \(\partial_{\infty}\Sigma\) is the image of a quasisymmetric map \(S^{1} \rightarrow \partial_{\infty}\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\). \end{itemize} As a consequence, the authors deduce that any \(C^{1}\) space-like curve in \(\partial_{\infty}\mathbb{H}^{2,n}\) is quasisymmetric and bounds a complete maximal surface, with curvature tending to \(-1\) at infinity.