Symplectic Wick rotations between moduli spaces of 3-manifolds

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201701_004MaRDI QIDQ4579901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlos Scarinci, Jean-Marc Schlenker

Publication date 10 August 2018

Published in ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4772

zbMATH Keywords

earthquake mapglobally hyperbolic anti-de Sitter metricsharmonic mapsHopf differentialsquasi-Fuchsian hyperbolic metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: Given a closed hyperbolic surface $S$, let $cQF$ denote the space of quasifuchsian hyperbolic metrics on $SimesR$ and $cG{H}_{-1}$ the space of maximal globally hyperbolic anti-de Sitter metrics on $SimesR$. We describe natural maps between (parts of) $cQF$ and $cG{H}_{-1}$, called "Wick rotations", defined in terms of special surfaces (e.g. minimal/maximal surfaces, CMC surfaces, pleated surfaces) and prove that these maps are at least $C^1$ smooth and symplectic with respect to the canonical symplectic structures on both $cQF$ and $cG{H}_{-1}$. Similar results involving the spaces of globally hyperbolic de Sitter and Minkowski metrics are also described. These 3-dimensional results are shown to be equivalent to purely 2-dimensional ones. Namely, consider the double harmonic map $cH:T^{\ast }cTocTT$, sending a conformal structure $c$ and a holomorphic quadratic differential $q$ on $S$ to the pair of hyperbolic metrics $(m_L,m_R)$ such that the harmonic maps isotopic to the identity from $(S,c)$ to $(S,m_L)$ and to $(S,m_R)$ have, respectively, Hopf differentials equal to $iq$ and $-iq$, and the double earthquake map $cE:cTimescMLocTT$, sending a hyperbolic metric $m$ and a measured lamination $l$ on $S$ to the pair $(E_L(m,l),E_R(m,l))$, where $E_L$ and $E_R$ denote the left and right earthquakes. We describe how such 2-dimensional double maps are related to 3-dimensional Wick rotations and prove that they are also $C^1$ smooth and symplectic.

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• Lightlike and ideal tetrahedra
• Real GIT with applications to compatible representations and Wick-rotations
• Anti-de Sitter geometry and Teichmüller theory
• Symmetry of Witten’s 3-manifold invariants for sl(n, C)
• A quantization of moduli spaces of 3-dimensional gravity
• Para-hyper-Kähler geometry of the deformation space of maximal globally hyperbolic anti-de Sitter three-manifolds

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