The flux homomorphism on closed hyperbolic surfaces and anti-de Sitter three-dimensional geometry

Abstract: Given a smooth spacelike surface

S i g m a

of negative curvature in Anti-de Sitter space of dimension 3, invariant by a representation

h o : p i_{1} (S) o m a t h r m {P S L}_{2} m a t h b b R i m e s m a t h r m {P S L}_{2} m a t h b b R

where

S

is a closed oriented surface of genus

g e q 2

, a canonical construction associates to

S i g m a

a diffeomorphism

p h i_{S} i g m a

of

S

. It turns out that

p h i_{S} i g m a

is a symplectomorphism for the area forms of the two hyperbolic metrics

h

and

h^{'}

on

S

induced by the action of

h o

on

m a t h b b H^{2} i m e s m a t h b b H^{2}

. Using an algebraic construction related to the flux homomorphism, we give a new proof of the fact that

p h i_{S} i g m a

is the composition of a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism of

(S, h)

and the unique minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphism from

(S, h)

to

(S, h^{'})

.

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