Geometry and topology of complete Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature

zbMATH Open1344.53049arXiv1306.2240MaRDI QIDQ2801753FDOQ2801753

Authors: Jeffrey Danciger, Fanny Kassel, François Guéritaud 

Publication date: 21 April 2016

Published in: Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. Quatrième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study proper, isometric actions of nonsolvable discrete groups Gamma on the 3-dimensional Minkowski space R^{2,1} as limits of actions on the 3-dimensional anti-de Sitter space AdS^3. To each such action is associated a deformation of a hyperbolic surface group Gamma_0 inside O(2,1). When Gamma_0 is convex cocompact, we prove that Gamma acts properly on R^{2,1} if and only if this group-level deformation is realized by a deformation of the quotient surface that everywhere contracts distances at a uniform rate. We give two applications in this case. (1) Tameness: A complete flat spacetime is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold. (2) Geometric degeneration: A complete flat spacetime is the rescaled limit of collapsing AdS spacetimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2240

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zbMATH Keywords

Margulis spacetimesLorentzian geometrygeometric transitionanti-de Sitter manifoldstopological tameness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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