Maximal extensions and classification of Lorentzian tori with a Killing field

Abstract: We study the simply connected inextendable Lorentzian surfaces admitting a Killing vector field. We construct a natural family of such surfaces, that we call "universal extensions". They are characterized by a condition of symmetry, the "reflexivity", and a by a rather weak completeness assumption, the absence of "saddles at infinity". Considering these surfaces as model spaces, we study their minimal quotients, divisible open sets and conjugate points. We show uniformisation results (by an open subset of one of these universal extensions, which is uniquely determined) in the following cases: compact surfaces and analytical surfaces. It allows us to give a classification of Lorentzian tori and Klein bottles with a Killing vector field.

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Lorentzian model surfaces of constant curvature have big isometry group, but they do not have many quotients. In the present work, the more general Lorentzian surfaces admitting a Killing vector field, are studied. A family of simply connected and inextendable model spaces are constructed. Beside the isometry flow given by the Killing vector field they admit various discret isometry subgroups. These model spaces admit many quotient spaces with various geometry and topology. The uniformisation result is proved for the compact case and for the analytic case. It leads in particular to the classification of Lorentzian tori and Klein bottles admitting a Killing vector field.

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