The conformal boundary of Margulis space--times.

DOI10.1016/S1631-073X(03)00170-5zbMath1040.53078MaRDI QIDQ1408210

Charles Frances

Publication date: 15 September 2003

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

stereographic projectionlightconeEinstein universeMargulis space-timeconformal boundary of a Lorentzian manifolddiscrete group of conformal transformationsDrumm's affine Schottky groupDrumm's crooked planesfree and properly discontinuous actionlightlike geodesicping-pong dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

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