Constant mean curvature foliations of simplicial flat spacetimes

DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N5.A6zbMATH Open1123.53034arXivmath/0307338OpenAlexW2076536446MaRDI QIDQ871726FDOQ871726

Authors: Lars Andersson 

Publication date: 20 March 2007

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Benedetti and Guadagnini have conjectured that the marked lenght spectrum of the constant mean curvature foliation $M_{a}u$ in a 2+1 dimensional flat spacetime $V$ with compact hyperbolic Cauchy surfaces converges, in the direction of the singularity, to that of the marked measure spectrum of the R-tree dual to the measured foliation corresponding to the translational part of the holonomy of $V$. We prove that this is the case for $n+1$ dimensional, $ngeq2$, {em simplicial} flat spacetimes with compact hyperbolic Cauchy surface. A simplicial spacetime is obtained from the Lorentz cone over a hyperbolic manifold by deformations corresponding to a simple measured foliation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307338

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zbMATH Keywords

Compact hyperbolic Cauchy surfacesConstant mean curvature foliationsSimplicial flat spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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