Fundamental domains for free groups acting on anti-de Sitter 3-space

DOI10.4310/MRL.2016.V23.N3.A10MaRDI QIDQ727691zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeffrey Danciger, Fanny Kassel, François Guéritaud

Publication date 20 December 2016

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5804

zbMATH Keywords

anti-de Sitter 3-spacecrooked planesDrummfree groupfundamental domainsMinkowski 3-spacepiecewise linear surfacesproperly discontinuous action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30) Special relativity (83A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Crooked planes are piecewise linear surfaces that were introduced by Drumm in the early 1990s to construct fundamental domains for properly discontinuous actions of free groups on Minkowski 3-space. In a previous paper, we introduced analogues of these surfaces, called AdS crooked planes, in the 3-dimensional anti-de Sitter space AdS^3; we showed that many properly discontinuous actions of free groups on AdS^3 admit fundamental domains bounded by AdS crooked planes. Here we study further the question of which proper actions on AdS^3 admit crooked fundamental domains, and show that some do not, in contrast to the Minkowski setting.

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